Re: [Numpy-discussion] PowerPC testing servers

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote:

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Matthew Brett wrote:

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Hey,

A recent post to the wheel-builders mailing list pointed out some links to places providing free PowerPC hosting for open source projects, if they agree to a submitted request:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/wheel-builders/2017-February/000257.html

It would be good to get some testing going on these architectures. Shall we apply for hosting, as the numpy organization?

Those are bare VMs it seems. Remembering the Buildbot and Mailman horrors, I think we should be very reluctant to taking responsibility for maintaining CI on anything that's not hosted and can be controlled with a simple config file in our repo.

Not sure what you mean about mailman - maybe the Enthought servers we didn't have access to? For buildbot, I've been maintaining about 12 crappy old machines for about 7 years now [1] - I'm happy to do the same job for a couple of properly hosted PPC machines. At least we'd have some way of testing for these machines, if we get stuck - even if that involved spinning up a VM and installing the stuff we needed from the command line. Cheers, Matthew [1] http://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/buildslaves