How to donate?
> On Jan 22, 2018, at 12:08 PM, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> 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
