Hello Everyone,

I'm from IBM China Development Team and I'm working on a new initiative that plan to enable a "minimized" or "full" CentOS operating system on IBM LinuxONE / IBM System Z (s390x architect).

The reason why we start this topic is we are trying to contribute to the RDO community with our OpenStack build on LInuxONE.
We have successfully finished the build job for OpenStack Train Version on LinuxONE and passed the basic function verification tests recently.
Now, we already have a link for worldwide users & fans to reference for their needs.
For "official official" contributing to the RDO community, community admin stated that a TripleO CI env is a must for community release criteria and
the OpenStack packages need to be built in the CentOS build system which run on s390x arch.

So, we turn to here for help, we know CentOS community ever had releases for s390x arch but for whatever reasons finally stopped for update.
We want to take this opportunity to enable it up again and therefore
want to know about the overall processes, skills required, hardware requirements, manpowers and duration estimated and which parts need IBM's team's input, etc.

Our target is to enable at least a "minimized" CentOS (which can support the OpenStack CI work), is there a SIG fit for this purpose? or a "full" CentOS with default feature sets.

Could anybody kindly give us some clue to start this journey?

Thanks everyone in advance!

The Howto of OpenStack Train Installation on IBM LinuxONE had been merged to the RDO official website.

https://www.rdoproject.org/install/

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FuLong Wang
fulong.wang@cn.ibm.com
IBM China Systems Lab, Beijing, China
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