Now that Fedora 8 is out, I'd like to make a suggestion with regard to PPC. It's no secret that we've been talking about dropping PPC. First it was all together, then it was so that it could be come a secondary arch. So far, we've failed to execute. Starting now, I'd like to treat PPC as a pseudo secondary arch. This is because the secondary arch framework just isn't in place yet. What would this mean? We'd continue to build ppc binaries as if it were a primary arch, this requires no change to Koji. We continue to make rawhide trees of it, this requires no change to buildrawhide (mash, pungi). However, come release time (Alpha/Beta/Pre Release/RCs/Final) it would fall upon a secondary arch team for PPC to create release trees and isos of the bits. It would fall upon this team to QA the bits. It would fall upon this team to host the bits for download at release time (if no suitable framework exists for hosting the bits elsewhere at various release points, rel-eng could insert them into the normal tree structure as a last resort). We would clearly advertise that PPC is to be considered a secondary arch. We would do this /now/ so that there is enough time for interested parties can form a team and have it in place to handle bug reports, composes, etc... It's time to make this happen, instead of sitting on it for yet one more release. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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