The ASF PR team would like something like that "Spark now supports ARM" in press releases. And don't forget: they do you like to be involved in the launch of the final release.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 9:46 AM bo zhaobo <bzhaojyathousa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi @Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> , > > Thanks for your idea. > > We may use the bad words to describe our request. That's true that we > cannot just say "Spark support ARM from release 3.0.0", and we also cannot > say the past releases cannot run on ARM. But the reality is the past > releases didn't get a fully test on ARM like the current testing we do. And > that's true that current CI system have no resources can fit this kind > request(test on ARM). > > And please try to think, if a user wants to run lastest Spark release on > ARM(even the old releases), but community doesn't say that the specific > Spark release get testing on ARM. I think the users might think there is a > risk run on ARM, if he/she has no choice, they have to run spark on ARM, > they will build the CI system by themselves. That's very expensive. Right? > But now, community will do the same testing on ARM in the upstream, this > will save the users' resources. That's the reason announcing by community > in some ways is official and the best. Such as "In XXX release, Spark gets > fully testing on ARM" or "In XXX release, Spark community integrated an ARM > CI system. ". Once user see that, he/she would be very comfortable to use > Spark on ARM. ;-) > > Thanks for your paitent, we just discuss here, if I do something not good, > please feel free to correct and discuss. ;-) > > Thanks, > > BR > > ZhaoBo > > > > > [image: Mailtrack] > <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&;> > Sender > notified by > Mailtrack > <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&;> > 19/11/15 > 下午05:43:57 > > Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> 于2019年11月15日周五 下午5:04写道： > >> I don't think that's true either, not yet. Being JVM-based with no >> native code, I just don't even think it would be common to assume it >> doesn't work and it apparently has. If you want to announce it, that's >> up to you. >> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 3:01 AM Tianhua huang <huangtianhua...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > @Sean Owen, >> > Thanks for attention this. >> > I agree with you, it's probably not very appropriate to say 'support >> arm from 3.0 release'. How about change to the word "Spark community >> supports fully tests on arm from 3.0 release"? >> > Let's try to think about it from the user's point of view than >> developer，users have to know exactly whether spark supports arm well and >> wheter spark fully tests on arm. If we specify spark is fully tests on arm, >> I believe users will have much more confidence to run spark on arm. >> > >> >
