Hi,
Thank you very much for the guide and the advice.
First, to answer Alastair's question, I am not looking to improve any specific skill; I just want to get a closer look at the world of HPC. If I'm lucky, next year I’ll start a master's program on the subject at my university.
These past days, I’ve been installing and testing 'sbuild' as suggested in the wiki that Peter linked to me, and I also started looking into some of the bugs related to the packages you maintain [0]. Since I’m a beginner and only have experience with GitHub issues, I hope I did it correctly: I checked some packages, went to the bugs section, selected “all,” and reviewed the reported issues. I found some that, if I understood correctly, I might be able to work on once I have a Salsa account. However, one of them caught my attention.
The 'papi' package [1] only has one listed bug according to the Debian Bug Report [2]. In this bug, someone from the Debian team (or so I assume, based on their email) reports an issue on the 's390x' architecture—an architecture I discovered while reading the bug report. Another Debian team member responds:
"Upstream does not support s390x.
And I won't accept any third-party patches for this."
Does this mean that this bug cannot be worked on, or am I misunderstanding something?
Best regards, and thanks again for everything.
Gonzalo
[0] https://tracker.debian.org/teams/debian-hpc/
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/papi
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861765
Hi
What kind of skills do you have or wish to develop?
The main challenges are clearing old bugs (a janitor task that’s useful both in itself, and training);
We need to put together CI/CD pipelines on Salsa for MPI and GPU related testing;
There is also new components to package, such as UCC (https://github.com/openucx/ucc)
Regards
Alastair