My comment is literally about the same thing. Does IBM provide x86 and ARM workers or s390x only?
> what failures are you talking about? s390x is not an "exotic" architecture by any stretch and is pretty top-notch in terms of availability, reliance and performance
I am talking about timeouts in CI blocking the whole pipeline, odd failure with JVM package not working, hitting some jit corner cases, I am talking about kernel level concurrency bugs, and so on. I've seen them all. How much should a volunteer oss library maintainer spend debugging that?
> s390x is not an "exotic" architecture by any stretch and is pretty top-notch in terms of availability, reliance and performance, which is why it is still in use.
It is so me. I don't see a reason to care for it.
> the incentives both for the community supporting it and the manufacturer supporting the community seem pretty evident to me.
Not evident to me. Unless there is some other kind of incentive involved, they agree to fix other bugs, provide CI workers for other architectures, pay for support and so on.