Re: ppc64le support in 9.3 branch?

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 08:01:53PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 7:58 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>>> I'm inclined to just ask them to stop running the animals on that
>>> branch. There are no pre-existing users on 9.3 ppc64le, and new
>>> customers hopefully won't move to 9.3. ISTM backpatching is riskier than
>>> just changing a bunch of buildfarm configurations.
>>
>> +1 for dropping it.
>
> +1.  If something like that were to happen for 10 or 9.6 knowing that
> they still have four years to go, that could be debated, but just for 6
> months there is little benefit.


I am in discussions with Mark, he's going to disable the animals from
building 9.3. (by setting branches_to_build to 'HEAD_PLUS_LATEST4'
instead of 'ALL').

cheers

andrew


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