On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 13:32 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 13:44 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:44:02AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 01:20:58PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > The fact that i686 kernels continue to work in general is basically luck. > > > > > > > > You probably will deny this, but in practice it has been so for many > > > > years, because the i686 has dropped out of RHAT's business interest. > > > > > > I don't think this is unreasonable. It is easy for us to support > > > architectures that a company is paying people to support. It is hard > > > for us to support architectures that are not getting that that kind of > > > support. As noted in this thread, this isn't just Red Hat -- it is true > > > of upstream i686 as well. No one is really interested in this. I > > > guarantee you that if some non-Red Hat person showed up and said "Hey, > > > I'm here to work on i686 N hours per week", we would say "awesome", not > > > "Red Hat doesn't care". > > > > Would it be possible to make this a Prioritized Bug? > > It seems to be a classic case of "affects a lot of people, nobody seems > > to want to take interest". > > It's not a question of a single specific bug, though. It's a question > of having someone or a group of someones interesting in the *ongoing > requirement* for making sure i686 still works. > > To give an example outside of the kernel, the installer 'Reclaim Space' > function has been broken on i686 for about 10 months, and no-one seems > to be lining up to fix that one either: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375732 To make an implicit point explicit: if this bug had affected, say, ARM, or PPC, or s390, I would've known exactly who to CC and say 'hey look, here's a bug specific to the arch you care about'. That's the value of those arch SIGs/WGs (I forget what we call things). There is no i686 WG/SIG, no more informal but well-known 'group of people who care about and help fix i686 bugs', so I can't do it for that bug. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
