New Project: rustworkx

[IvanIsCoding]

Please describe the project

A high-performance Python graph library implemented in Rust. Among other things, it is used by Qiskit which is an open-source library maintained by IBM Quantum.

URL for the project

https://www.rustworkx.org/
https://github.com/Qiskit/rustworkx

Describe current CI/CD setup

We do not test IBM Power or IBM Z support at all. For releases, we use QEMU. Because our dependencies do not release wheels for these architectures, rustworkx is forced to skip tests. Building our dependencies with QEMU triggers the 6hr time out from GitHub actions.

Describe the primary use case for the Github Action Runner

I want to build and release Python wheels without having to run QEMU.

Paste a link to the existing actions workflow file(s) or directory

https://github.com/Qiskit/rustworkx/blob/main/.github/workflows/wheels.yml is the current release workflow with QEMU for ppc64le and s390x.

How often do you plan on executing the runner?

Every release, which is very infrequent but has a high-impact as the builds break often. I have seriously considered dropping support for ppc64le/s390x entirely.

What is the primary programming language for the project?

Python/Rust

Please select desired hardware

• Power 9 (ppc64le)
• IBM Z / LinuxONE (s390x)

Account names of the GitHub repo admins that will need access to setting up the runner

@mtreinish and @jakelishman

[mtarsel]

Thank you for submitting this issue - we are ready to onboard this project now.

Please install the GitHub App from the following link and select your repository:
🔗 Power Z GHA Runner App

For more details on the onboarding process, please refer to our documentation:
📄 Onboarding Guide

Please let me know in this issue once you have installed the github app on your repo. For security reasons, I will double check it is the correct repo and then approve the repo to use our images. You will not be able to use our images until I approve the repo.

After the repo has been approved, you will be able to use the ubuntu-24.04-ppc64le and ubuntu-24.04-s390x images in the workflow file and all good to go :) The onboarding doc linked above will be helpful.

Please note: forks will not be able to use this service since those repos will not be in our allow list.

If there is any questions or concerns, we can discuss those here.

[IvanIsCoding]

I will give you a ping when I get the organization admins install the app. This might take a couple of days.

[jakelishman]

Thanks for kicking this off Ivan, and thanks Mick for the response. I'm one of the IBMers (@jakelishman on internal Slack if you need me) Ivan's alluding to as an org admin of github.com/Qiskit. I'm just clearing this with the other org admins, and I'll follow the rest of the onboarding guide once I've got sign-off.

[mtarsel]

hey just bringing this up again, are you guys still interested in being onboarded? thanks :)

[jakelishman]

Thanks for the ping and sorry for the disappearance - I made sure the owernship chain was aware of the change, then got swamped with other things and forgot to come back.

I've just approved the Power/Z GHA app to the Qiskit organisation, and opened a partner issue to this one (#95) to correspond to the other repository in the Qiskit org that we'd like to use the runner one.

[IvanIsCoding]

Whenever I get the green light I will update Qiskit/rustworkx#1555 to test the runners

Thanks for handling the admin details, Jake and Mick