-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Jeff Garzik wrote: > I would rather the problem be approached in a logical, scalable fashion: > by distributing the workload across the package maintainers who have > firsthand knowledge. ie. how things worked before. PPC hardware isn't exactly common these days. I'm sure there are a few machines on campus that have PPC (there are definitely SPARC workstations sprinkled around). As it stands, I have no useful access to any of the machines (I guess a Live CD could get some special access, though at what cost to my status as a student, I don't know). > But you're dodging the larger point -- Fedora has, de facto, demoted big > endian support in its entirety to a second-hand effort, rather than > distributed the workload much more widely. Given M package maintainers > and N secondary-platform volunteers, it is clear M > N by orders of > magnitude. > > Given that ppc32 and ppc64 (or pick your BE platform) have demonstrated > an ability to detect problems not found on LE, it seems like this policy > change will directly lead to missed bugs, and an attendent decline in > software quality. > > Was ppc really such a burden? > > Jeff Build times were the worst part of it IMO. With how it was set up (ppc being default even on ppc64) ppc64 could have been dropped and ppc be left intact. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJKw/+VAAoJEKaxavVX4C1XccEP/RwHvNRhDexa5klFpl3mDvlQ pFLpT2OogtNWT58RuxvyOIlQMHs8NJbWdu+cjBYxav70Uhk2a7zqCN8g+ExJz0YM QSRd8HVyNTglOOT9kVLpQR9JM9E7gehnqTbDUY3l7kb9It02oQ8xf08M7Z+UNwgB FRFcXRQRZ8m8PfkOpTAEFlwXccRuyYQcm1CgvVX52NMVma32FxkFWxfBfBEL4vkH lfSeuU1z6bzKsHbUOFV0qBcteDYRRE7UjG698qlFJY2PCu5mSZzwt8QQiiXaqemS oYRDvXxoLEL6xHVlwboYAbT5ej/Gt51EOzlH6GMinLaJCfXwbe4Eb1hkpS09p4k4 rB4ttazM5rl1SEYuXP318X0qHguhNjZeFvg4NPuep+Xbk1uy2cKDFygk5XDxgsH+ sJxGnsv09f6An7+y2seK+P9TviIr1g2SqeebaZeK2lOCIOBU0Ip7aXVM0A0/tNK8 By0qZOfOjhYoac5FvXTuJUU3+Zh7SZDxexwnsfUM8gyIMRllDMpIwp2tfqQHY6wJ AwuNoCPTchqXzr+WE24Y/9QX2Merbj0AooKzIFuHIAtpC/usD2/bggvVYiq1PM+k frIuFJmugcsMt6Yool6Sl7kJqFW4nin5xUdbPJuY6UQP+6x7oouV53WMsVFtW5zk fBXSd9Rm2dMgiXQp/2JR =MGWo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
