cvs commit: www/en index.xsl

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 11 May 2006 23:41, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > If memory serves me right, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> >> andre       2006-05-12 02:54:03 UTC
> >>
> >>   FreeBSD doc repository (src committer)
> >>
> >>   Modified files:
> >>     en                   index.xsl
> >>   Log:
> >>   Alpha has left the building. Add ARM and rearrange the list of
> >> architectures a bit.
> >
> > I wonder if the !alpha part was a little premature?  Yes, the alpha
> > kernel bits are gone from HEAD, but they're still around on RELENG_5 and
> > RELENG_6, and we're still planning to do releases from both of those
> > codelines.  The first release that won't include alpha will be 7.0, and
> > its release cycle doesn't even *start* for over a year.
> >
> > Just a thought...
>
> There are like two remaining Alpha users and we most likely won't gain
> any new ones in the foreseeable future. Though we are compiling releases
> according to jhb it isn't even clear they actually work on Alpha.  It's
> not actively maintained anymore.  It really has left the building and there
> is no point in advertising it on our homepage instead of on some random
> tombstone somewhere out in the past architectures graveyard.

There are more than 2 users, but when users report problems those problems 
aren't really resolved.  I think Alpha should stay on the main page until it 
is officially retired when 7.0 is released.  We also shouldn't mention arm 
until it's actually "included" in a release which it is not yet.

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