Re: Alpha Core 3 is available

[Oliver Falk <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2007-03-08 17:42, Mike McGrath schrieb:
> Oliver Falk wrote:
> > Am 2007-03-05 20:52, Oliver Falk schrieb:
> > > Sergey Tikhonov schrieb:
> > [ ... ]
> > > > Thanks to RedHat who accept patches for Alpha.
> >
> > Hm. They do? Great. However. When core is opened for everyone, I hope 
> > that AC folks will join the community and get (write) access to glibc, 
> > xorg, ... If all alpha-specific things get %ifarch-ed, it shouldn't 
> > interfere with anything.
> >
> > To have all alpha specific patches in the fedora repository would be 
> > great. Maybe RH/FI (Fedora Infrastructure) is able to add 
> > alpha-builders  to their infrastructure!? That's why I added them CC: :-)
> >
> > At least from plague I know it's possible to add passive builders to 
> > the list. This means *we* (people who own (spare) alpha machines)) can 
> > install machines with plague or whatever it will be named then, 
> > available to the FI team for building.
> >
> > I also guess it will not be too hard to add the idea of passive 
> > builders to the new koji (if it hasn't been coded yet). And well. If 
> > something doesn't build on alpha, it - of course - shouldn't break the 
> > 'normal' cycle (i386, x86_64, ppc(?))...
> >
> > For me questionable points are: Do we also want extras? Or only core? 
> > Will Red Hat support this idea? Will Fedora Board/Fedora 
> > Infrastructure support this idea?
> >
> > Who votes? Maybe Fedora Board?
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-March/msg00012.html 
>
>
> We've been discussing secondary arches for a while.  We've finally made 
> a decision to help host it but we don't have the facilities to host 
> builders (yet).

Because hardware isn't easy to get? Especially for alpha this is true. I 
don't think it's true for sparc and ia64... Is it?

> Truth be told I don't think we can even host the
> secondary arches yet.  Their estimates are for 150-200G per arch over 
> the next 6 months and unfortunately we just don't have that kind of 
> storage available.  With 3 arch's, alpha, sparc and ia64 thats 
> 450G-600G.  Something is on the table though and we hope to have 
> secondary archs soon.

OK. That's much storage. But please keep us posted as progress changes...

-of