Hi there, <puts on Apache CouchDB PMC hat>
There have been multiple requests recently to add additional platform support for CouchDB convenience binaries, especially Docker images. We'd love to add these, but it's only responsible for us to do so if we are regularly testing on these platforms. And per advice from the Docker project, it is not recommended to rely solely on qemu for xplat testing purposes.[1] Currently, the only hardware the ASF has available to us for testing are amd64 and arm64v8 systems. To fill the outstanding community requests, we are requesting donation of compute resources on the following platforms: * arm32v7/v8 * ppc64le * s390x We know we have outstanding bugs on some of these platforms. Without proper regular access to them, we simply cannot address them in a timely and appropriate fashion. The expectation is that we are able to run a Jenkins build agent on these machines, and have the ability to install software packages as necessary. This could be inside of a chroot, docker container or similar, should you not wish to trust the ASF infrastructure team and the Apache CouchDB PMC with root on your box. I'm excited about this opportunity for CouchDB's CI family to grow. But for it to happen, we need your help. Please give generously! -Joan [1] https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/3851#issuecomment-358507869
