What would be better, again IMHO, would be an Alpha "clearinghouse",
where potentially common issues that ALL Alpha distros may face would be
able to be discussed and solved AND TOSE SOLUTIONS MADE PUBLIC.
Initially, there was a linux-alpha KML from "vger" that played the
part, at least with kernel-related stuff, but it's long dead, AFAIK.
I thought that axp-list had become a good bit more distro-agnostic of late,
but it's now glaring obvious that it hasn't, or at least not enough, for
whatever reason(s).
Perhaps resurrecting alphalinux.info and its forums would work?
--Jay++