[tbb-bugs] #28326 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor Browser for PPC64LE

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#28326: Tor Browser for PPC64LE
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 Reporter:  power9                    |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  enhancement               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-rbm                   |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                            |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by teor):

 Replying to [comment:15 power9]:
 > Someone of you wrote some post before "The Tor Browser team can maintain
 a PPC build of Tor if they want" now you wrote the opposite, i'm confuse,
 i still do not understand if you really can't support it or if you don't
 want to

 If someone else writes patches, and those patches are good, we will merge
 the patches, and Tor Browser will be built for PPC.

 Here are the details:

 You might be confused because Tor Browser and Tor are different things.
 They are maintained by different teams, and they have different support
 policies.

 To answer your question, different people needed to talk about supporting
 both Tor and Tor Browser on PPC. That's why you can see different people
 talking about different options on this ticket.

 We don't have the people we need to support PPC:
 * The Tor Browser team does not have time to make patches for PPC Tor
 Browser. But they will build PPC Tor Browser if someone else writes
 patches.
 * The Tor team does not have any time to make patches for PPC Tor, or any
 way to test those patches. But if someone writes a patch that is obviously
 correct, we will merge it.

 If both these things happen, then the Tor Browser team can build a PPC Tor
 Browser.

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