On 08/24/2012 03:27 PM, András Murányi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <
hans@at.or.at>wrote:
>
>> On 08/21/2012 07:56 AM, Max wrote:
>>
>> I just talked to the administration and we can get a dedicated server with vm ware for different distros and a disk space of ~50 gb. plus a apple ppc machine. the guys from the hackerspace maschinenraum offered their help to install.
>>
>> m.
>>
>>
>> That's a great offer! I think we really need to think about how to make
>> this decentralized, or at the very least take it out of my hands.
>>
>> For sure, the ubuntu boxes that I was running are gone for good, so they
>> could set up some Ubuntu 32-bit and 64-bit instances. I find that about 9
>> gigs is the smallest useful system.
>>
>> .hc
>>
> Max's (institution's) offer is great. If the disk space is ~50GB, then,
> according to HC, we can set up ~5 different systems. That's not bad, it can
> even be totally enough - other systems would be Mac/PPC anyway. If,
> however, you think the space is too tight, is it possible to throw in
> another HDD? They are cheap and I could take care of setting up some kind
> of Paypal-donations stuff on
puredata.info in order to collect the money.
> Re decentralization: i was thinking about using the VM server (plus the
> other/private boxes) for slaves only, and setting up a master in the cloud.
> There are free Jenkins services out there, I'm just not sure if 1.) you
> like the idea 2.) those free services can be used for master only.
> Additionally, I was thinking about storing the resulting builds on another
> cloud service, but that may not be necessary with the ~5GB available with a
> free Jenkins service.
> Opinions welcome!
>
> PS I too a look at Gitian and I had the impression that it has the main
> emphasis on security enforcement whilst usability/features are somewhat
> lagging behind at the moment. So for now, I suggest that we go with
> Jenkins, and try to reinforce authenticity by the means of the master.
>
> András