Alpha Core 3 is available

[Oliver Falk]

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