HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

[Scott Long]

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...
> 

One thing to note is that whatever platforms get dropped from tier-1
status will have a high probablility of not getting updated with the
upcoming binutils/gcc/gdb update that is coming.  Therefore, if we are
going to drop a platform, we had better be very serious about it since
bringing it back up might be hard.

Scott