Call for PowerPC users

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:27:15AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>On 03/28/2010 05:11 PM, Douglas Mencken wrote:
>> Yes, we need to make a call for PowerPC users. We are now like rats in
>> a sinking vessel. Apple dropped us, and Fedora is goind to drop us too
>> in F13. We, yes, *WE*, can't let this to happen! What is nedded: to
>> write a call on some official Fedora page, accessibly to everyone, not
>> only for developers or maintainers. There's actually no so much choice
>> for us now: 1) to live on OS X 10.4/10.5 and forget about modern
>> software or security updates; 2) to migrate on GNU/Linux, where you'll
>> never be "dropped" regardless of your platform is supported with MS
>> windows or not.
>
>Okay. Take a deep breath. Count to five.
>
>There. Doesn't that feel better? Now, let's talk rationally about this:
>
>Do you care about Fedora PPC support? Do you care enough to help make it
>possible?
>
>If the answer to those two questions is yes, then I would strongly
>encourage you to get involved with the Fedora PPC Architecture Team.
>These are the people who put in the time to build Fedora packages for
>PPC, to fix PPC specific bugs, to compose the releases, to test them,
>and release them.
>
>The reason that PPC was dropped as a Primary Architecture was because
>very few people were doing this work. Many packages were being built but
>didn't work, many more were just not building. In addition, these build
>failures were preventing otherwise successful builds on x86/x86_64,
>which is where the majority of the Fedora userbase is.

To be fair, I think that's an exaggeration.  The default install for PPC/PPC64
worked just fine through F12.  I'm running it now.  I think it's true there were
a subset of packages that weren't building, but every package I've installed
has worked just fine.

Neither of us has data here, so we'll just agree to disagree.

>It is important to keep in mind that just because Fedora won't
>automatically do a PPC release for Fedora 13 and beyond does _NOT_ mean
>that there will not be a PPC release for Fedora 13 and beyond. If the
>PPC Architecture Team does the work and makes the release, then it will
>happen.
>
>For more details, see:
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC

That pages is ridiculously out of date.  My fault, but I haven't had time to
update it.

josh