Just a quick note. Today we committed https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/12380 , "MINOR: Remove ARM/PowerPC builds from Jenkinsfile #12380". This PR removes the ARM and PowerPC builds from the Jenkinsfile.
The rationale is that these builds seem to be failing all the time, and this is very disruptive. I personally didn't see any successes in the last week or two. So I think we need to rethink this integration a bit. I'd suggest that we run these builds as nightly builds rather than on each commit. It's going to be rare that we make a change that succeeds on x86 but breaks on PowerPC or ARM. This would let us have very long timeouts on our ARM and PowerPC builds (they could take all night if necessary), hence avoiding this issue. best, Colin
