Hi,

On 7-May-26 03:01, Kevin Fenzi via devel-announce wrote:
> Just to notify a wider audience, our s390x builders have been offline
> today due to a failure of a storage array.
> 
> Folks have been working today to bring it back up, but the fix
> will require parts that need to be overnight shipped.
> 
> Hopefully the machines will be back online tomorrow after the
> replacement is installed.
> 
> Arched Builds submitted now will wait for s390x builders to
> be back to complete.
> 
> You can watch https://www.fedorastatus.org/ and/or
> https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/13326
> 
> for further status.

First of all, thank you Kevin and infrastructure team for all
your work on the Fedora infra, the below is not meant as
criticism of the Fedora infra team.

It seems that lately there have been various capacity issues
wrt s390x and I think sometimes also powerpc builders.

AFAICT Fedora mainly supports these 2 architectures because
IBM wants Fedora to supports these 2 architectures.

Yet IBM seems to lately consistently fail to make adequate
resources (builders, test-vms for contributors) available for
these resources.

For example I believe that copr has been forced to switch to very
slow builds for s390x and powerpc using emulation in qemu on
x86_64 builders?

Looking at the COPR example I believe the under-resourcing problem
has become so big that we (the Fedora project) need to seriously
consider if we want to keep supporting s390x and powerpc going
forward or if the time has come to drop these ?

Regards,

Hans


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