[OpenAFS-devel] HP-UX slave going away

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:23:54 -0500


On 01/13/2014 11:57 AM, Andrew Deason wrote:
> The HP-UX build machine I'm currently maintaining will be going away
> relatively soon. I've shutdown the buildbot slave already, but it should
> be removed from the buildbot configuration.
>
> Currently, 1.6 does build on HP-UX but master does not. I may try to
> fiddle around with it to see if I can get master to build before the
> machine goes away, but I don't know if I'll have time. If you have any
> reason to want to see if something will build on HP-UX, you have maybe a
> couple of weeks or a month before it is completely inaccessible.
>
> As far as I know this is the only HP-UX machine anyone tries to build
> openafs on these days, so if you or someone you know cares at all about
> openafs on PA-RISC HP-UX, you'll need to speak up (and probably provide
> hardware).
>
> I'm not sure if openafs wants to explicitly drop support for HP-UX after
> this, but I assume it will bitrot pretty quickly post-1.6 without a
> machine to build on.
>
I've removed the HP-UX build slave from the buildbot config.

Jason