Thanks Peter! When you are ready as a project to move forward, you can apply for the sponsored projects program at https://www.openmainframeproject.org/sponsored-projects/apply.
Thank you, John Mertic Director of Program Management - Linux Foundation - ODPi, R Consortium, and Open Mainframe Project [email protected] +1 234-738-4571 Schedule time with me at https://calendly.com/jmertic On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:08 AM Peter Linnell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:38:54 -0400 > John Mertic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Not sure if s390x is a supported arch, but if so I can get access to > > that hardware for the project on an ongoing basis. > > > > Thank you, > > > > John Mertic > > Director of Program Management - Linux Foundation - ODPi, R > > Consortium, and Open Mainframe Project > > [email protected] > > +1 234-738-4571 > > Schedule time with me at https://calendly.com/jmertic > <snip> > > Hi John, > > Sorry for the delay in answering. > > We've not yet defined S390x as a supported arch, but we've not had > builders available, so your offer is timely. > > I know Hadoop 2.+ will work on S390x, as IBM committed a bunch of fixes > to allow it to compile and run, and http://www.veristorm.com/zdoop is a > commercial offering. > > What we would need is a way to add S390x to our CI and eventually be > able to offer convenience artifacts to our releases. > > Speaking for myself, when I landed at SUSE, one of my first pet > projects was to see if Bigtop could run on SLES for SystemZ. At the > time, Hadoop was on 1.x, which relied on Sun Java specific > security classes, hence only the Sun JVM would suffice. This barrier has > been overcome. > > So, my first take is a: a huge thanks for the offer and we will explore > this to the fullest extent possible to make this as supported > platform. b: Let us know what we need to enable on our side to make > this happen. c: I'd love to know any objections from our PMC and > committers, which I think/hope would be minimal. > > Cheers, > > Peter Linnell > >
