Release status update (or, Hoary and you)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:08:46AM +0100, Thibaut Varene wrote:

> I see no mention anywhere of the IA64 port. What's the big idea?
> 
> As of yesterday, we seem to have a pretty decent installer (see James'
> last reports, the mptscsih issue is expected to be fixed as of
> yesterday).
> 
> The only pending "issue" on ia64 that I know of is the OpenOffice
> case. As I told Colin on IRC, OpenOffice has never been working on
> ia64, so there wouldn't be any regression there. Colin pointed me at
> the AMD64 trick, which we're going to try to reproduce on ia64 by the
> end of the week hopefully.
> 
> Still, I'd like to know what's the decided fate of the port WRT Hoary
> release. If it's already scheduled for Hoary+1, i can relax a bit :-P

I intended to include a note about Hoary architectures, but had to catch a
plane.  The officially supported architectures for the Hoary release will be
the same as for Warty: i386, amd64, powerpc.  ia64 and sparc will be
unofficial for the purposes of the release, and have lower priority relative
to the officially supported architectures.

ia64 has been catching up to the Warty architectures during the Hoary cycle,
and it seems worthwhile to give it another cycle to solidify.

-- 
 - mdz