On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hey, > >> > >> A recent post to the wheel-builders mailing list pointed out some > >> links to places providing free PowerPC hosting for open source > >> projects, if they agree to a submitted request: > >> > >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/wheel-builders/2017- > February/000257.html > >> > >> It would be good to get some testing going on these architectures. > >> Shall we apply for hosting, as the numpy organization? > > > > > > Those are bare VMs it seems. Remembering the Buildbot and Mailman > horrors, I > > think we should be very reluctant to taking responsibility for > maintaining > > CI on anything that's not hosted and can be controlled with a simple > config > > file in our repo. > > Not sure what you mean about mailman - maybe the Enthought servers we > didn't have access to? We did have access (for most of the time), it's just that no one is interested in putting in lots of hours on sysadmin duties. > For buildbot, I've been maintaining about 12 > crappy old machines for about 7 years now [1] - I'm happy to do the > same job for a couple of properly hosted PPC machines. That's awesome persistence. The NumPy and SciPy buildbots certainly weren't maintained like that, half of them were offline or broken for long periods usually. > At least we'd > have some way of testing for these machines, if we get stuck - even if > that involved spinning up a VM and installing the stuff we needed from > the command line. > I do see the value of testing on more platforms of course. It's just about logistics/responsibilities. If you're saying that you'll do the maintenance, and want to apply for resources using the NumPy name, that's much better I think then making "the numpy devs" collectively responsible. Ralf
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