On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 00:41, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > Sorry, should have been more explicit: I'm just the messenger here, > > assuming that most debian-user subscribers are probably not following > > debian-devel. > > In my opinion the most important message is this: > >> > [----- Forwarded message from Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> -----] > >> > What's perhaps more significant is that i386 is now getting to the > >> > point where it requires such prodding, instead of being an assumed > >> > default architecture. That means that the folks who care about it > >> > should probably start thinking about building more organization and > >> > structure around the work, recruiting people, building a task list, and > >> > so forth, instead of just assuming "oh, everything will work on i386, > >> > it always has." Volunteering to do that sort of coordination is helpful > >> > even if you aren't debugging FTBFS problems. > > That is, if you and other list subscribers care about continued i386 > > support you should probably look into contributing. > What does it mean exactly? Contribute how and where? Some discussion around those questions occurred in the thread from which Andrei forwarded one message. The thread begins here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2020/12/msg00139.html so that's probably a good place to begin reading for anyone interested in this topic.
