On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:58:29PM -0000, exarkun@twistedmatrix.com wrote:
On 04:31 pm, ctb@msu.edu wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:21:06PM +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Hello,
Sorry for the little redundancy, I would like to underline Jean-Paul's suggestion here:
Le Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:05:12 +0000, exarkun a ??crit??:
I think that money can help in two ways in this case.
First, there are now a multitude of cloud hosting providers which will operate a slave machine for you. BuildBot has even begun to support this deployment use-case by allowing you to start up and shut down vms on demand to save on costs. Amazon's EC2 service is supported out of the box in the latest release.
I'm not a PSF member, but it seems to me that the PSF could ask Amazon (or any other virtual machine business anyway) to donate a small number of permanent EC2 instances in order to run buildslaves on.
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I'm happy to provide VMs or shell access for Windows (XP, Vista, 7); Linux ia64; Linux x86; and Mac OS X.
Okay, let's move on this. Martin has, I believe, said that potential slave operators only need to contact him to get credentials for new slaves. Can you make sure to follow up with him to get slaves running on these machines? Or would you rather give out access to someone else and have them do the build slave setup?
I think we crossed threads here; I can provide the VMs, and access to them, but I won't (empirically, don't have the regular time available to ;) maintain buildbot buildslaves. You or Antoine or others are welcome to contact me off-list. Just give me an account name and ssh key, and I'll give you login access via tunneled Remote Desktop to the Windows machines.
Others have made similar offers.
I'll similarly encourage them to take action, then. Do you happen to remember who?
Every few months this thread seems to pop up and then fizzles when people realize the level of work and attention involved (<- he says cynically) in exploiting the offer of resources; I hope that anyone interested in offering resources will pop their head up again to look around.
I hope everyone is on board with the idea of fixing bugs in CPython, either in the actual implementation of features or in the tests for those features. That being the case, the discussion of whether or not the PSF should try to fund such a task is perhaps best discussed on the PSF members list.
Sure. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, ctb@msu.edu