Hi everyone, In a week, six months will have passed since I wrote this email. We have still not received replacement ppc64le CI machines.
I propose removing ppc64le from our official build matrix. This means discontinuation of support in the Docker container and the binary packages. This will also directly affect our downstream "top-level" couchdb Docker container. If anyone has objections, or has alternate proposals, please speak now. -Joan "doing the best I can" Touzet On 14/09/2020 22:09, Joan Touzet wrote: > Paul informs me that IBM have discontinued all Power platform hosting at > the level that suits us. He is following up with Adam and others to find > a solution, but... > > This directly endangers our ability to release packages and Docker > containers on ppc64le, as this platform will not be in the regression > suite. We've had issues on alternate platforms (such as ARM and ppc64le) > when not performing active testing. > > This is especially troubling since IBM are the primary clients for this > platform, or rather, their customers are. > > I realize this may seem harsh, but I propose to remove ppc64le from the > packages and the couchdb top-level Docker file by end of 2020, should > replacement machines not be made available. > > Please discuss. > > -Joan > > On 2020-09-12 5:01 p.m., Joan Touzet wrote: >> Hi Devs, >> >> FYI per Jenkins: >> > All nodes of label ‘ppc64le’ are offline >> >> This is one of the reasons causing our Jenkins failures on master. >> (The other is our usual heisenbugs in the test suite.) >> >> I really would like it if someone on the PMC (other than me and Paul) >> would agree to help keep Jenkins running. It's my weekend and I really >> don't have time to stay on top of these things. If you're a committer >> we can get you access to the machines fairly readily, and Paul can help >> talk you through what's necessary to keep the workers alive. >> >> -Joan "more help is always welcome" Touzet
