> On 15. Sep 2020, at 04:09, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Paul informs me that IBM have discontinued all Power platform hosting at the
> level that suits us. He is following up with Adam and others to find a
> solution, but...
>
> This directly endangers our ability to release packages and Docker containers
> on ppc64le, as this platform will not be in the regression suite. We've had
> issues on alternate platforms (such as ARM and ppc64le) when not performing
> active testing.
>
> This is especially troubling since IBM are the primary clients for this
> platform, or rather, their customers are.
>
> I realize this may seem harsh, but I propose to remove ppc64le from the
> packages and the couchdb top-level Docker file by end of 2020, should
> replacement machines not be made available.
>
> Please discuss.
+1.
Best
Jan
—
>
> -Joan
>
> On 2020-09-12 5:01 p.m., Joan Touzet wrote:
>> Hi Devs,
>> FYI per Jenkins:
>> > All nodes of label ‘ppc64le’ are offline
>> This is one of the reasons causing our Jenkins failures on master.
>> (The other is our usual heisenbugs in the test suite.)
>> I really would like it if someone on the PMC (other than me and Paul)
>> would agree to help keep Jenkins running. It's my weekend and I really
>> don't have time to stay on top of these things. If you're a committer
>> we can get you access to the machines fairly readily, and Paul can help
>> talk you through what's necessary to keep the workers alive.
>> -Joan "more help is always welcome" Touzet
