On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Tom Duerbusch wrote:
IBM had a program. If you were a developer, you could sign
up and have time on one of IBMs' mainframes. Kind of like
the old time sharing services back in the '60s and '70s.
It seems to me that it resurfaced with Linux development but
I haven't heard anything about it in, at least, 5 years.
You're breaking my heart -- you don't read my blog
http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2010/08/ttytter-move-to-oath.html
nor the centos developer mailing list
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2009-July/004742.html
IBM has at least two avenues in, for those interested in
asking -- the 'chiphopper' certification units are for
commercially oriented products certifications, is available on
request to IBM partners, and is first rate support; the other
(the CDSL 'zseriespenguins') is supported with a lighter touch
and available for more self-reliant developers including
community developers
I run a builder under a fairly continuous load; on my poking
and prodding, the rpm5 project also recently set up there, and
it has helped expose architectural assumptions to good effect.
I believe Jeff has a buildbot, having pushed forward to solve
Python 2.6 on what started life as a RHEL 4 series base
-- Russ herrold
