On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
It's true that we're not "catering to your personal needs", but
that's
not really the issue. As I've explained before, what we need is people
willing to show up and put in the effort, not just ask that other
people do stuff for them. It's not a _leadership_ thing — it's a
_people doing the work_ thing. The other architectures you mention may
have less marketshare, but we have the contributors we need to make
them viable. *This* thread is a request from someone interested in
gathering more people to do that for i686, and as Fedora leadership, I
totally support that.
Which we greatly appreciate! :)
To add to what Matt said, I would say that the development side of the
community has been generally quite supportive of i686 still be a part
of Fedora - *IF* there are enough people interested in doing the work
of supporting it. As I mentioned earlier, Fedora is a huge project
with a lot more work to do than people to do it, so we have to
prioritize. The ARM and PPC64 SIGs are very active, and thus Fedora
has support for ARM and PPC64.
Are you an i686 user? Do you want to continue to have the latest,
shiniest Fedora on your hardware? Then please come join us. The rest
of the community will give us the space and the positive vibes to
continue that support. We just need to help support the parts of
Fedora that are important to us.
jeff
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