On 05/21/2010 11:05 AM, James A. Peltier wrote: > So what is it that you need? Just for someone like me to actually run it? What would be required if I wanted to maintain my own build and keep it up to date as an un-official copy? Yes, when I did the bootstrap - I had interest from 3 people, 1 of whom then changed jobs and his workplace dropped the ia64 cluster and moved to x86_64, the second guy had 1 ia64 machine which developed a problem and they didnt think its worth fixing it. I've not heard from the third chap since. So not sure what is going on. > I'm interested in getting involved and contributing back. Of course I'm also not sure how much work is involved just yet. There isn't really that much work involved - not nearly as much as powerpc/powerpc64 effort. If you are going to put in the effort, it might be worth doing something semi official - as long as we can retain the general build and distro policy of / for CentOS and we can get to a state were we track build packages from i386 / x86-64. There is a build machine hosted in the UK ( its a dell 2950 with 2 ia64 1.4Ghz - couple of gigs of ram and is on a fairly good network ). So we would need to get together atleast another machine for testing purposes. I'm guessing you already have some kit in place, which might be usable ? How much of time are you really going to put into this ? I dont mean to sound patronising, but it would to be good to work with someone who has some level of commitment. Given that I have no personal interest in ia64, and no hardware of my own that is ia64, and that rhel6 isn't going to have a ia64 tree[1]; We really dont want to be in a situation wherein we put something out, and then struggle to keep things moving along.[2] - KB [1]: does'nt mean we cant do one [2]: within reason. No one expects anyone to commit on contract, 10 hrs a week for 5 years. But it should not be a case of only putting this effort in through the summer holidays, or a 'quiet phase at work' etc. PS: try not top posting