Please contact me directly, off-list, if you have computing resources you'd like to contribute to the project. :)
-Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michelle Phung" <michelleph...@gmail.com> To: dev@couchdb.apache.org, "Joan Touzet" <woh...@apache.org> Cc: "CouchDB Users" <u...@couchdb.apache.org> Sent: Monday, 22 January, 2018 8:33:44 PM Subject: Re: Requesting HW CI/CD support for alternative platforms 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
