Ubuntu IA64 Port Project

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Hi Thibault

I would welcome this, and have asked the team to make available to you 
everything you'll need for the port.

Further, if you can:

  - credibly claim to have a team that will not let the IA64 port fall 
behind
  - address security issues promptly (uploading fixed packages as soon 
as fixes are available in the community for known issues)

... then I'll arrange for there to be a set of buildd's that will 
automatically build all new Ubuntu package uploads for IA64, and an 
official repository for that.

I can't devote any core team time to it, but I'll make the hardware and 
bandwidth available to assist.

Cheers,
Mark

Thibaut VARENE wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First of all, some context:
> I'm a CS student graduating at the end of the year, and, as part of my
> scholarship, I'm currently running a project dealing with IA64 Linux.
> FWIW, I'm also known by some of you as a DD and a PA-RISC/Linux
> hacker ;)
>
> Now, the facts:
> Roughly put, the aim of that project is to build an enterprise-grade Linux
> distribution for IA64 (another part of my project is to study existing 
> distros
> and try to find out what's missing in order to fully achieve 
> enterprise-level
> quality ;)
>
> After some investigations and discussions with my project's leader, it 
> clearly
> appeared that Ubuntu Linux was a very interesting candidate.
>
> I'm hereby offering to start an IA64 port of Ubuntu Linux (I have time 
> & machines
> available), and I'd like to know how such a project would be welcomed 
> in the
> Ubuntu community.
>
> LaMont Jones told me that the biggest part of the work should be 
> porting the
> installer, the rest being much easier. Any thought, comment?
>
> HTH
>
>
> Thibaut VARENE
> The PA/Linux ESIEE Team
> http://www.pateam.org/
> http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/


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