On 2015-09-16 06:47, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I work with a free/open source project. We have a failure report from > a Debian package maintainer on an s390. > Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for your interest. :) I am directing you over to debian-mentors, since your enquiry is probably better fitted there (debian-testing is intended for upgrade reports etc.) > I have a lot of systems available to me for testing (including GCC's > test farm), but none of them provide an s390 environment. I tried to > add QEMU's qemu-system-s390x, but ran into Debian Bug 799120 > (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799120). > > I'm guessing Debian has the test platform because a maintainer tested > under it (he told me it was not QEMU based). But searching results in > spurious noise (https://www.google.com/search?q=debian+test+farm), and > nothing specific to Debian. > > I have three related questions: > > (1) Where is the Debian test farm? I suspect you are looking for our s390x porterbox[1]. :) > (2) Does Debian provide access to non-Debian maintainers? > (3) How can I acquire [possibly partial] access to it for s390 testing? > > If needed for (2), I'm willing to sign-up to be a Debain maintainer > for the project which I have subject matter expertise. > > Thanks in advance. > We have guest accounts[2] which might be what you are looking for. :) If you get a guest account, you can use it to get a "chroot" for building as described at [3]. As suggested in the beginning, if you have any further questions, please follow up to debian-mentors. :) Thanks, ~Niels [1] https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=zelenka [2] https://dsa.debian.org/doc/guest-account/ [3] https://dsa.debian.org/doc/schroot/
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