svn commit: r47582 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Oct 16 02:05:11 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Fri Oct 16 02:05:09 2015
New Revision: 47582
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47582

Log:
  Add Ports on PowerPC report from danfe

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Fri Oct 16 00:39:04 2015	(r47581)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Fri Oct 16 02:05:09 2015	(r47582)
@@ -1412,5 +1412,52 @@
     </sponsor>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat='ports'>
+    <title>Ports on PowerPC</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Alexey</given>
+	  <common>Dokuchaev</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>danfe at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The Ports Collection typically receives less attention on
+	Tier-2 architectures than on Tier-1 architectures, although
+	several build-runs were performed at various points in the past,
+	and broken ports were marked as such at those times.</p>
+
+      <p>Some of the Tier-2 platforms, such as PowerPC and ARM,
+	have improved considerably recently, both on &os;'s and the
+	compilers' sides, but as the tree is not rebuilt on the cluster
+	very often, it was suspected that many ports are marked BROKEN
+	while they in fact now build and run correctly.</p>
+
+      <p>Over the past several weeks, 26 ports that were indeed
+	broken on at least PowerPC had been fixed, 58 ports that were
+	incorrectly marked as broken (left-overs from the old times) were
+	unmarked, and fewer than 40 ports still have issues requiring
+	further work.
+      </p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>The Ports Collection could benefit a lot from more frequent sweeps
+	  targetting Tier-2 systems.</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Recent work on QEMU-backed emulators and the
+	  much-anticipated cross-building of ports are essential pieces to
+	  bring &os; packages on par with the base system's support,
+	  architecture-wise.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 
 </report>
