Thanks Antoine, that's a good point. Maybe we should prioritise the definition of our support policy [1] before adding new platforms, build systems, etcetera.
[1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/46002 El lun, 12 may 2025 a las 10:52, Antoine Pitrou (<anto...@python.org>) escribió: > > Hello, > > I'm sure the technical details can be ironed out, but the question is > more whether someone is willing to do the maintenance work required to > keep Arrow working on big-endian platforms, and if possible enable it > for more components (most of us don't have access to such a platform). > If a CI build is red half of the time, then there is not much of a point > to it. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > Le 12/05/2025 à 10:48, Raúl Cumplido a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for pushing this, adding s390x to our testing matrix sounds > > interesting to me. We have had discussions in the past about ephemeral > > runners [1] and the potential security risks. In that issue there was a > > discussion about how the pytorch project sets those "ephemeral" runners, > > see their workflow here [2]. Do you know if the idea is to follow a > similar > > approach as described on that issue? > > > > Regards, > > Raúl > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43817#issuecomment-2619171798 > > [2] > > > https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/47df195065d62a649169565293b24595249ca3b1/.github/workflows/s390.yml#L25 > > > > El jue, 8 may 2025 a las 20:32, ISHIZAKI Kazuaki (<ki...@acm.org.invalid > >) > > escribió: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> CI for s390x on Apache Arrow has not been enabled since we previously > >> relied on the unstable Travis environment. > >> > >> Now, IBM offers permanent virtual instances for open source projects > >> [1]. I’m considering using these instances for s390x CI as a > >> self-hosted runner for GitHub Actions. I’ve already obtained an > >> instance. > >> > >> There are two possible approaches for setting it up: > >> a. Using the ursacomputing/crossbow repository [2] > >> b. Going through the ASF infrastructure [3] > >> > >> Based on @Raul’s suggestion, option (a) would likely be the simpler > path. > >> > >> I’d appreciate any comments or suggestions you may have. > >> > >> [1] https://community.ibm.com/zsystems/l1cc/ > >> [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/46014 > >> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-24268 > >> > >> Best Regards, > >> -- > >> Kazuaki Ishizaki, IBM Research - Tokyo > >> Mail: ki...@acm.org > >> > > > >
