For your consideration: Secondary Architectures in Fedora

[Christopher Blizzard]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 19:44 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like a good process to me; opens up the buildsys to more
> arches
> > w/o imposing more work (on anyone who isn't wanting that work, at
> > least).
> 
> That's a bit of bad statement.  I'm not wanting to do work to fix
> things
> on x86, but I do.  The purpose of secondary arches isn't to get people
> out of work.  It's to allow the base to move forward for the majority
> of
> Fedora users.
> 

...while at the same time creating new opportunities on new platforms
for free software.  And allowing those arch-loving people to be part of
a larger community to make the entire project more rich.

--Chris