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Re: A big thanks to Matt Turner for his hard work on Gentoo/MIPS
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So hear ye all.
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--- On Sun, 9/11/11, Joshua Kinard <kumba [at] gentoo> wrote:
> From: Joshua Kinard <kumba [at] gentoo>
> Subject: [gentoo-mips] A big thanks to Matt Turner for his hard work on Gentoo/MIPS
> To: "Gentoo-dev" <gentoo-dev [at] lists>, "Gentoo/MIPS" <gentoo-mips [at] lists>
> Cc: mattst88 [at] gentoo
> Date: Sunday, September 11, 2011, 10:09 PM
>
> Hey all,
>
> I just want to take a minute to thank Matt Turner
> (mattst88) for all his
> hard work and leadership in keeping Gentoo/MIPS alive
> within the project.
>
> It has been a long, tough road for the MIPS port of
> Gentoo. Our hardware is
> quirky, extremely diversified, sometimes archaic, and not
> the easiest in the
> world to understand. With my time having been limited
> over the past two or
> so years, we had regressed a fair bit, and the MIPS port as
> a whole has
> largely been leaderless. Thus we became a thorn in
> the side of many a
> developer, many of whom I sure asked the question, "Why are
> we still
> supporting this oddball architecture?".
>
> Matt has stepped up to the plate and gotten things fixed up
> and working
> again, a task that I honestly felt was becoming more and
> more of a long-shot
> with each passing week. We have new stages -- in all
> ABIs and two (or three
> now?) ISAs, proper multilib support, our bug count is
> actually going down,
> and possibly new install media on the way. None, I
> repeat, none of this
> would have been possible without Matt's leadership and
> drive to make the
> MIPS port relevant once more.
>
> So please join me in thanking Matt for his hard work, time,
> and leadership
> in making Gentoo/MIPS a viable element of the Gentoo
> project one again!
>
> Thanks Matt!
>
> --
> Joshua Kinard
> Gentoo/MIPS
> kumba [at] gentoo
> 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28
>
> "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future
> frightens us. And
> our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast,
> terrible in-between."
>
> --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
>
>
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Re: A big thanks to Matt Turner for his hard work on Gentoo/MIPS