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0 pointspabs32y ago0 comments

The RISC-V port of Debian was driven by internal Debian contributors, not by external actors. Similarly for Debian kFreeBSD and some other ports. OTOH, for LoongArch and ARC, those ports are driven almost entirely by the companies selling those chips. So I would say it is a mix.

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teddyh2y ago

> The RISC-V port of Debian was driven by internal Debian contributors, not by external actors.

Yes, but my point is, they weren’t doing that work just because they were Debian contributors; they had their own additional reason for doing it. They were not assigned the work by Debian central command. Therefore, asking Debian why Debian does not do some work or other is usually the wrong way to get something done.

pabs3OP2y ago

Yes, there isn't much of a Debian central command, apart from the technical committee, but they can't force/direct people to do things, only to say what Debian will do in specific circumstances.

That said, the community of contributors are what makes up the Debian project, so in a sense it is Debian deciding to do things when Debian does things :)

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