Re: Aw: RE: s390x buildd machines

Hi Lyz,

On 2/20/26 9:11 PM, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 12:13 PM Philipp Kern <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I don't think this is accurate? As Sebastiaan linked to db.d.o: One
>> machine is hosted with the German ITZBund and the second machine is
>> hosted with Marist, which as far as I know is distinct from the
>> Community Cloud. If I recall correctly, the Community Cloud did not
>> cater well to the kinds of permanent machine leases and required regular
>> renewal.
> 
> I spoke with John Mertic of The Open Mainframe Project this morning to
> get more details about the LPAR at Marist. It's part of an older
> program that The Open Mainframe Project no longer offers, so it's
> grandfathered in to the space there. I'd have to dig a bit deeper to
> see if there's potential to grow our footprint there, just let me
> know.
> 
> Alternatively, over at IBM I do run the IBM LinuxONE OSS Community
> Cloud (L1OSSCC), which grants virtual machines to projects on a
> permanent basis, the only renewal requirement is clicking a link once
> a year (and even with that, the team and I review activity and do our
> best to reach out to the community directly before a VM is shut down,
> let alone deleted). It's the same infrastructure as the current
> offering from Marist/OMP, just administered by a different team and
> technically remains a different sponsor. In speaking with John, he
> thinks having Debian apply for the L1OSSCC is a good path forward.
> 
> The form to apply is here:
> https://community.ibm.com/zsystems/form/l1cc-oss-vm-request/
> 
> And although it isn't explicitly stated, we do offer Debian 13 as one
> of the images for our VMs.

Thanks! I have filled out the form on behalf of Debian. Please let me 
know if you need more from me. We discussed it internally and having a 
third location would be preferable to us at the present moment over 
trying to expand the existing setups.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern