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Remove POWER8 references and announce its retirement - #95

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POWER8 has been deprecated and the hardware is being decommissioned, so this removes it from everything current-facing and announces the change:

  • Drop POWER8 from the powerdev service page cluster description and the OpenStack hosting request form's architecture dropdown
  • Genericize POWER8-specific wording to POWER across the project descriptions in data/projects/powerdev.yml (fixes an "architeture" typo and a stray "PowerPC8" along the way)
  • Add a blog post announcing the retirement: instances migrated live to POWER9, the IBM end-of-service and distro-baseline background, co-located POWER8 and hosted CI runner notes, and the upcoming POWER11 integration
  • Add a deprecation note to the 2024 POWER10 announcement pointing at the new post, leaving its historical text intact
  • Tighten the homepage "Latest from the blog" cards: smaller three-line clamped excerpts and equal-height cards with aligned Read more buttons

Testing

  • hugo builds cleanly and the generated output contains no POWER8 references outside the two intentionally historical blog posts
  • markdownlint passes on the new and edited posts
  • Homepage blog section verified visually via hugo server + headless Chrome screenshot

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ramereth and others added 2 commits July 22, 2026 12:53
POWER8 has been deprecated and the hardware is being decommissioned, so
drop it from the powerdev service page cluster description and the
OpenStack hosting request form's architecture dropdown, and genericize
POWER8-specific wording to POWER in the project descriptions. Add a blog
post announcing the retirement and the upcoming POWER11 integration, and
point a deprecation note in the 2024 POWER10 announcement at it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Lance Albertson <lance@osuosl.org>
The homepage rendered each post's full ~70-word summary at paragraph
size, which made the section wordy and tall. Scope homepage-only styles
that shrink the excerpt to match the meta line and clamp it to three
lines, and make the three cards equal height with Read more pinned to
the bottom, matching the service cards. The blog listing keeps the
full-size summary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Lance Albertson <lance@osuosl.org>
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