Stop building Atomic Dekstops for PPC64LE

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

Summary

We will stop building the Fedora Atomic Desktops for the PowerPC 64 LE architecture. According to the count me statistics, we don't have any Atomic Desktops users on PPC64LE.

Users of Atomic Desktops on PPC64LE will have to either switch back to a Fedora package mode installation or build their own images using Bootable Containers which are available for PPC64LE.

Owner

Timothée Ravier, siosm@fedoraproject.org

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora Linux 42
Last updated: 2024-12-16
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Detailed Description

Nothing more than the summary.

Feedback

None so far.

Benefit to Fedora

Not building for PPC64LE means less infrastructure load, less maintenance, less testing to be done. We can focus on the architectures where hardware is more easily available and where we have a lot of users already (i.e. x86_64 and aarch64).

Scope

Proposal owners: Remove the ppc64le builds from the pungi & bodhi configs.
Other developers: N/A
Release engineering: #Releng issue number (TODO)
Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Alignment with the Fedora Strategy: N/A

Upgrade/compatibility impact

Users of Atomic Desktops on PPC64LE will have to switch back to a Fedora package mode installation or build their own images using Bootable Containers which are available for PPC64LE.

Note that this change is only about the Atomic Desktops images and installers and thus all the RPM packages will still be available for anyone to build images using the Bootable Container flow.

Early Testing (Optional)

N/A

How To Test

N/A

User Experience

N/A

Dependencies

N/A

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) We keep things as is
Contingency deadline: Beta release
Blocks release? No

Documentation

Fedora Atomic Desktops are not longer built for the PowerPC 64 LE architecture.

Release Notes