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
