On Oct 1, 2009, at 7:58, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 07:45:22AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> I know that last week several ppc people (IBM, etc) expressed alarm
>> and concern about the demotion of ppc to a secondary arch. Most of
>> those people I pointed at Bill and Jesse who were staffing the
>> fedora
>> booth.
>>
>> Did we get any positive feedback/offers of help from them?
>>
>
>
> No. They heard that here would be a secondary arch effort and
> seemed to
> think "oh, they will fix it for us". Seems to be the running theme.
> People want ppc to stick around but nobody wants to work on it.
> That's
> why secondary arch seems right. People who care can work on it but
> lack
> of care won't hold Fedora back. Keep in mind that many upstreams
> (most?)
> don't have access or care about ppc. In the nonserver world ppc is
> dead.
s/nonserver/desktop
Lots of embedded PPC still out there (yes, running Linux).
Fair point!