Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

From: Scott Long (scottl_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 06/07/04

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To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>

    Garance A Drosihn wrote:
    > At 3:46 PM -0600 6/6/04, Scott Long wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> At this point, I'm going to advocate that Alpha be dropped from
    >> Tier-1 status for 5.3 and 5-STABLE and no longer be a blocking
    >> item for releases. ... As I said back then, demotion is not a
    >> terminal condition, and I would be thrilled if someone comes
    >> forward in the future and brings the platform back up to date.
    >
    >
    > I think you have to officially demote it, with emphasis on the
    > point that "demotion is not a terminal condition". Then, if some
    > developer(s) show up and implement all the missing pieces, we
    > can happily announce it back in tier 1.
    >
    > But for now, say that it *IS* demoted. Not that you're advocating
    > that we think about maybe demoting it in the future unless someone
    > offers to start looking into the missing pieces.
    >
    > At the moment, it probably also makes sense to demote sparc64,
    > even though I own one of those. Not that we have anything against
    > it, but as a practical matter we haven't hit "critical mass" on it
    > just yet. Since I am interested in sparc64, I can take that as a
    > goal to help make it a tier-1 platform by 5.4-release...
    >

    Ok, thanks for all of the input. I'm going to wait a few more days for
    anyone else to chime in and then discuss it with re@ and core@. We'll
    likely have a formal announcement in a week.

    Back to the topic at hand, who is looking that the other KSE issues?

    Scott
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