Sparc status

As most of you know, both Weeve and gustavoz have either
retired or
announced their retirement from gentoo.  That left sparc
with no TLP
lead.  For the moment, I am assuming the position of sparc
project lead.
Sparc typically chooses its leads for one year terms
starting at the
first of the year.  There is no reason I can see to change
this, so
early in 2008 sparc will again establish a lead or leads for
the normal
one year term.

The reaction from the user and developer communities has
been most
gratifying.  Several developers have asked to help with
sparc while we
are sorting outrselves out, at least.  So, It gives ma great
pleasure to
welcome jer, jmbsvicetto, jokey, and yoswink to our sparc
project.
(This gives us both joker and jokey; I am not sure of the
significance
of that.)

Unfortunately, this places us in the majority of
architecture teams:  we
currently do not have a release coordinator.  Please bear
with us while
we sort that out.

Also please bear with us on another matter.  As you may or
may not know,
over the course of a bit under 190 weeks, gustavoz has
averaged one
commit every 3.24 hours.  We do not commit to maintain this
pace.
However, if you have testing or keywording requests open
against sparc
and it seems that nothing is happening, please put a
reminder onto the
bug requesting it.  It is quite possible that while we are
sorting
things out no one will have noticed the request at all.
 
INFRA:  Jason Wever pointed out to me that up to now, sun
spoke directly
with him or with Gustavo when talking about loaner systems
for trade
shows or about donating equipment.  Jason suggests that
"It might be
worth asking infra to setup either an out of office message
indicating
that ppl wanting to talk to us should talk to you for sparc
related
stuffs or having them forward our email to you".  I
much prefer the
first option:  It is not appropriate to forward either
Jason's or
Gustavo's emails to me.

Finally, yes, I know the sparc project page needs updating. 
I'll work
on that over the next day or so unless someone wants to come
forward and
take care of it. 

Thanks for all the support.  And especially thanks for all
Jason and
Gustavo have given to the project.  Jason was my mentor, and
I owe him a
great deal.

Regards,
Ferris
-- 
Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccorgentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 11:12 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote:
> Ferris McCormick wrote:

> > Finally, yes, I know the sparc project page needs
updating.  I'll work
> > on that over the next day or so unless someone
wants to come forward and
> > take care of it. 
> 
> If it's GuideXML you're wanting, I can help with that,
though I'm still
> on devaway (mostly) as my right eye doesn't really
work. But if it's
> just GuideXML (and not lots o' content) for your Sparc
page, I'd be
> happy to help out.

Thanks, we might take you up on it in a bit.  For now, I was
able to
just go in and make some brute force changes (mostly
substituting one
nick for another in existing lines).

Pages still need more updating, though.

Regards,
-- 
Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccorgentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)

Ferris McCormick wrote:
> As most of you know, both Weeve and gustavoz have
either retired or
> announced their retirement from gentoo.  That left
sparc with no TLP
> lead.  For the moment, I am assuming the position of
sparc project lead.
> Sparc typically chooses its leads for one year terms
starting at the
> first of the year.  There is no reason I can see to
change this, so
> early in 2008 sparc will again establish a lead or
leads for the normal
> one year term.

O.o

Vanish away to play Metroid 3 and all sorts of stuff changes
around here.  What 
next, the return of jmorgan and wesolows? (wouldn't that be
a twist).

Hmm, guess I'll have to fire the old blade back up soon
then, and actually boot 
it off a real kernel, not a netboot this time.

--Kumba


ps., anyone know what prompted gustavoz' retirement?  It
seemed rather sudden. 
I must've really missed something.

-- 
Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead

"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels
of the world: small hands 
do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are
elsewhere."  --Elrond
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