A way out for a.out

Posted Mar 25, 2022 5:28 UTC (Fri) by glaubitz (subscriber, #96452)
In reply to: A way out for a.out by rdeforest
Parent article: A way out for a.out

> Thank you for your work! I don't directly benefit from it but I appreciate the value to society. It's the kind of thing I tell people about when trying to explain the importance of the Debian project overall.

Thanks, I appreciate the praise. It's also fun to work on these old machines and we're making good progress even with getting Rust supported on m68k ;-).

> Has there really been no news in the Debian Ports world since May of 2019, or is none of the news since then worthy of the project's front page?

We don't really have an active web team for Debian Ports, most of the discussion happens on the mailing list.

As you can see from the folder with the CD images, we are more or less regularly push out new Debian unstable snapshots.

A way out for a.out

Posted Mar 25, 2022 8:21 UTC (Fri) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link] (1 responses)

> most of the discussion happens on the mailing list.

Might be worth at least posting that somewhere prominently on the web page so people don't assume the project is dead.

A way out for a.out

Posted Mar 25, 2022 9:03 UTC (Fri) by beagnach (guest, #32987) [Link]

Agreed - something as simple as a small feed showing the most active email conversations recently, and the most recent releases would make a massive difference - the web page, which is the most likely first port of call for anyone with a casual interest, makes it look like the project is moribund.