s390x Status (Was Re: Secondary Architecture Status?)

[Dan Horák]

David Woodhouse píše v Ne 10. 05. 2009 v 00:20 +0100:
> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 13:24 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
> > FESCo conducted a brief discussion of moving PowerPC to a secondary
> > architecture for Fedora 12.  The general consensus is that since
> > Fedora 12 development cycle has already begun, it is not appropriate
> > for Fedora 12.  However, for Fedora 13, FESCo is in favor of the idea.
> >  NB: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL VOTE OR POSISTION, THAT WILL COME NEXT
> > WEEK.
> 
> It was originally decreed by the Board that we wouldn't drop PowerPC
> from being a primary architecture until some other architecture has
> actually shown that the infrastructure for secondary architectures is
> working.
> 
> We still don't have any secondary architectures gearing up to ship
> Fedora 11 -- it would be really interesting to know why that is.
> 
> What technical barriers are still there -- why don't we have a release
> yet?
> 
> I think that at this point it's acceptable to leave the fate of the port
> to the people who most care about it -- but if there are infrastructure
> or other problems which would block a release _regardless_ of how hard
> the port maintainers work, that's less reasonable.
> 
> So a report from our existing secondary architecture teams on why they
> haven't managed to release yet would be useful input to next week's
> meeting.

Short info about s390x status
- it was restarted earlier this year with the goal to have F-11 release
- still building F-11 packages - 5620 successful builds (--latest), ~360
ExcludeArchs, ~750 failures with the Java stack being the main hurdle
- we have some issues with capacity of the network connection to the
koji hub and it also limits our progress
- only a bunch of packages exist now on the koji hub, but we should
start doing composes soon(TM)


		Dan