Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-03 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 01:06:01AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:44:44 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > Yesterday I tried to setup a sparc64 chroot on a second disc in one of > > > my Sparcs, but the currently documented way[1] to do so failed[2]

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Michael Cree
FWIW, I am a porter of the Alpha architecture in the following ways: - run a buildd - kernel support - work with upstreams for toolchain support - general porting work including filing bugs and patches I doubt if I will continue that for the life cycle of Jessie given that many of the former

Re: squeeze and the future of the alpha port, redux

2009-02-22 Thread Michael Cree
Steve Langasek wrote: Also unsurprisingly (to me, given my observations that had led to the post in the first place), no one else has yet stepped up to be an alpha porter for squeeze. What is involved in this job? What is the time commitment? What is the needed experience? Up to now I