-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:35:22 -0500 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 14:01 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > > This is an opportunity for community members for whom i686 is a > > > > passion to join the team to participate in the bugfixing > > > > required. We previously called out the need for assistance[2], > > > > but had no substantial response. We hope that being transparent > > > > about our priorities will prompt interested community members > > > > to help. If you are interested to help, here are some resources > > > > to get started: > > > <snip> > > > > > > Given our past history with passive requests for help, I think it > > > might be beneficial to put a time limit on things. For example, > > > if no i686 Kernel SIG steps up and agrees to handle bugs on that > > > platform, we should strongly consider demoting i686 to secondary > > > architecture for installation media at the Fedora 23 branch point > > > (about six months from now). > > > > > > Note: I'm only suggesting that we would demote the kernel and > > > install media, *NOT* the 32-bit runtime libraries on an x86_64 > > > system; we would still need to be building those. > > > > How do you propose demoting to secondary only the kernel/install > > without the userspace? Do you mean de-emphasise the i686 bit > > platform? > > > > Well, that was more a political and rel-eng statement than a > technical one. Effectively, we'd not build the kernel package or do > release- blocking composes of i686 media. However, the Koji > build-system would still have to be capable of producing i686 builds > as a primary architecture. So yes, from a purely technical > standpoint, it's a muddy statement. from a purely technical point of view it would be a complete and utter mess. given how secondary arches work, we would be largely screwed supporting such a model. at least without sitting down and majorly redoing things. Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJU8MkfAAoJEH7ltONmPFDRrl0P/istndwIaewWAqOS8kRsXggc G6BXc+v6/fLwuZDzAcCD9f4ZcmvmVslSREaNI5W+GjEIIY4mUgsxfXR9BQuGm3OH +NZi5JLBtRdby36sstEIjM1OaKdi3vhB/7WwxZH8D/e1BEtmd3RI5ERORjAbUvqB Ogm8nKmEOUMezqxWGu+sBYHMdoYIK0rf/PACJ4NzzNeJLrU1qtOwVif78E+dPZ0F FWUlB8YckTUVrYDHk2ww/iNhhgwKaLpR4bLZf8QnqKiqhozpSw2D/MxLGHTUHEqW 0/lpFHi87rXC2vjHcsgNzzRwIoSJnhExi3BWzijy4r66jh/lRIl5Gxc/uEn45ANB iseDJJHrhulqigxeq/4zpc3iPpBssOrZmfWtc+tBjKHaZBjWPZ8YF38xN2Aa1uHl a/d7rh/XhBtYgs2BmvxkTd/sALfRONK8RVG9aCL8rY8Upck1ENfPx9DvCf1duLeO zwcnpC8ZeGv4JKMC5Mn6PdFqthPZUxaYlkZ+lYlE8+I3EnXOF0o31+bPdpQgvn/i EUuY1BBpldhmLe8GWZpqfABS6WoX9ErPTGqpB4iAZ4L2hgSn4PWnxCbdjc0Oak4w 4dOqTQ/rAHABcjpL07pJ2F+EMKFbDTxh5yCjTCsuIWRT9G6wSYg58dFC9Veu+gN1 KoZifUI74JXo+NjGDmWv =uxsR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
