[OM Cooker] Say bye to i586

Kate Lebedeff kate at lebedeff.co.uk
Mon Aug 29 06:47:16 EDT 2016


then it is definitely a topic for TC - how to do it, since many were sure it is only about volunteers

let’s decide how we announce this etc
Bero was suggesting a contest once, smth like “show us a piece of hardware which you use, and which is unable to run 64” - Bero, please correct me, how exactly you were suggesting it?



> On 29Aug, 2016, at 11:09, Tomasz Paweł Gajc <tpgxyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dnia poniedziałek, 29 sierpnia 2016 00:25:44 CEST Kate Lebedeff pisze:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Yes, and we followed the promise
>> 
>> Point is simple - 64 runs on almost anything, and maintaining 586 requires
>> certain work, which we could redirect very efficiently
>> 
>> Conclusion: if 586 is indeed demanded, sure there will be 1-2 volunteers
>> (more is not needed) who will jump in to take care of it
>> 
>> If there will not be 1-2 volunteers for it frm our dozens thousand community
>> - well... Then it is not worth it
>> 
> 
> Kate it's not only about volunteers. ix86 needs infra to be build, it needs 
> testing on real hardware, which day by day it becomes obsolete.
> 
> 
>> I just summarized seversl TC and council discussions on the topic
>> 
>> Let's catch up on wednesday and get to a conclusion
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> TPG

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