On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:25 AM Fabian Arrotin arrfab@centos.org wrote:
It's not the first time that some SIGs members are reaching out to me to ask about s390x architecture access for CBS (https://cbs.centos.org)
This time, it was on irc, in #centos-devel channel.
I promised to open a public thread on devel list so that we can reach out to bigger audience (SIGs and project leaders).
Myself, talking about the Infra SIG needs, I'd love to have access to s390x architecture, as my current plan includes building through local mock on a different infra, and then having to launch manual processes, as our infra packages are built / signed / distributed like every other SIG, but so lacking s390x support.
During that discussion on the centos-devel irc channel earlier today, someone mentioned https://openmainframeproject.org/news/developer-resources-for-linux-on-s390x...
Do you think (as SIGs) that it would be beneficial to eventually engage ? But also searching for CentOS Board members' opinion/thought on this first, as I don't want to start engaging with IBM through that public process if there is another way :)
That reminds me this Fedora thread about similar request : https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/11122
I'm not personally interested in Hyperscale for this (though if someone were to come to me and say they want to work on Hyperscale on Z, I wouldn't say no...), but I think there are other SIGs who could benefit if there is interest. Alternative Images is probably the main one that might find it useful (assuming someone steps up who cares about mainframes).
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