Future of Ac... or even of PLD

[Paweł Gołaszewski]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Marcin Król wrote:
> Since there are quite big chances that this time Ac will really hit 
> "stable" state I was thinking about what to do with it in the future.
> 
> Since not many developers are interested in maintaining Ac I'm 99% sure 
> that we will have problem with updates. I've done quick stats from 
> cvs-commit. There were 1051 commits to AC-branch since 1st of January 
> while HEAD received 6613 commits.

You have missed here "cvs tag" without any commit.

> Lets say that person making over 20 commits in 3 months is counted as 
> "active Ac developer". We have 6 active Ac developers then. IMO its not 
> enough for keeping Ac up to date and fixing bugs that most likely will 
> appear. Therefore I think that Ac will die 2 or 3 months after sticking 
> "stable" on it because of security holes and old, buggy versions of 
> various software. Or maybe it already died?

Be optimistic ;)

> I will at least try such way of developement for Ac. That means some big
> changes for Ac 2.1. First of all, clean upgrade from 2.0 probably will
> not be possible.

bleee.....

> New software, so called "hot stuff", but stable versions only. Most 
> requested ones are:
> - newer glibc (death sentence for i386 architecture)
> - gcc 4.1.x
> - modular xorg 7.2
> - gnome 2.18
> - put your favourite app(s) here
> 
> Architecture changes: deletion of i386 due to glibc change, possible
> deletion of i586, alpha, sparc. Rename amd64 to x86_64.
>
> Why to delete i586? Because a year from now probably no one will use old
> Pentium 1 or AMD K6/K6-2 processors.

K6-2/K6-3 are really good processors and platforms.
Remeber that these were up to 500MHz and it's really good platform for 
some not-big server.

> I realize that whole idea may die due to lack of developers interested 
> in maintaining the Th-like Ac. However I want to hear your opinions, 
> comments, suggestions.

I don't like "always-in-developement" model but it *might* be some 
solution. If connected with "milestones" that would be current goals it 
*might* work.

> P.S. If you want to help Ac live, please, declare a list of specs that 
> you will maintain after stable release.

spec-maintainer? bleee...

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