Whoops! Fixed it now - let me know there are further issues.

Thank you,

John Mertic
Director of Program Management - Linux Foundation - ODPi, R Consortium, and
Open Mainframe Project
[email protected]
+1 234-738-4571 <javascript:void(0);>
Schedule time with me at https://calendly.com/jmertic


On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:01 PM Peter Linnell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello John,
>
> I tried to sign up to that link, but it is a Google form, which would
> not allow me access. I tried with my plinnell at gmail account
>
> Can you look into this ?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Peter
>
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:04:31 -0400
> John Mertic <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >
> > >
>
>

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