I agree with Divij. A nightly Apache Kafka build for PowerPC would be welcome. But it shouldn't run on every build, since the extra time and complexity would not be worth it.
By the way, are there any features or plugins we don't intend to support on PPC? If there are, this KIP would be a good place to spell them out. Naively, I would think all of our Java and Scala code should work on PPC without changes. However, there may be library dependencies that don't exist on PPC. (We have to remember that the last desktop PowerPC chip that an average user could buy shipped in 2005....) best, Colin On Mon, Jun 19, 2023, at 23:12, Vaibhav Nazare wrote: > Thank you for response Divij. > > 1. We are going to use ASF infra provided nodes for better availability > and stability as there are 3 power9 nodes managed officially by ASF > infra team themselves. > Ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-24663 > https://jenkins-ccos.apache.org/view/Shared%20-%20ppc64le%20nodes/ > previously used power node details for apache/kafka CI: > RAM- 16GB > VCPUs- 8 VCPU > Disk- 160GB > for shared VMs we need to check with ASF infra team to provide details > > 2. We can run nightly builds once or twice in a day on specific period > of time instead of every commit > 3. apache/camel https://builds.apache.org/job/Camel/job/el/ has already > enabled CI for power platform they are using same H/W resources as > RAM- 16GB > VCPUs- 8 VCPU > Disk- 160GB > > -----Original Message----- > From: Divij Vaidya <divijvaidy...@gmail.com> > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2023 10:20 PM > To: dev@kafka.apache.org > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] KIP-942: Add Power(ppc64le) support > > Thank you for the KIP Vaibhav. > > 1. Builds for power architecture were intentionally disabled in the > past since the infrastructure was flaky [1]. Could you please add to > the KIP on what has changed since then? > 2. What do you think about an alternative solution where we run a > nightly build for this platform instead of running the CI with every > PR/commit? > 3. To bolster the case for this KIP, could you please add information > from other Apache projects who are already running CI for this > platform? Is their CI stable on Apache Infra hosts? > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/12380 > > -- > Divij Vaidya > > > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 12:30 PM Vaibhav Nazare > <vaibhav.naz...@ibm.com.invalid> wrote: > >> >> INVALID URI REMOVED >> confluence_display_KAFKA_KIP-2D942-253A-2BAdd-2BPower-2528ppc64le-2529 >> -2Bsupport&d=DwIFaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=s9I3h_d72lHAurpHrTUoOkX >> 8ByFHVUGD0XU1PTKfCiw&m=z6ZZ_vt5XP--aKB5lpRRZxdVMA37hD_0ch7COCLdMtLhMve >> 8AJcbKfwRtBac267r&s=BQtj2lbWlu32mK0TP37XeZanal33QOf5HB1-33QJIqc&e= >>
