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From: Olivier Grisel <olivier.grisel@ensta.org> Sent: Feb 8, 2020 11:30 AM To: SciPy Developers List <scipy-dev@python.org> Subject: [SciPy-Dev] Discontinued Rackspace Open Compute Discount
Hi all,
I received an email end of January that I just discovered today telling me that the Rackspace Open Compute Discount grant we use to host http://wheels.scipy.org for nightly builds and release management of our community has been discontinued on December 31st 2019.
I would like to take down the Rackspace hosted cloudfiles as soon as possible but we need to find a replacement as this will break all the CIs that rely on nightly wheels and also all the wheel release infrastructure for several project in the ecosystem.
Apparently the fees for January and the beginning of February already sum to $936.51. This is a large cost because there were a bunch of unused left-over block volumes that I already deleted.
To host wheels for nightly builds and release automation, a possible alternatives include using the github release pages but they are not really designed for this kind of workflow.
Alternatively there is a PyPI repo hosting feature in Azure Pipelines in public preview but I am not sure how it works, if it's free for open source projects and if we could use it as a replacement for the Rackspace cloud storage we currently use to host http://wheels.scipy.org .
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/artifacts/pypi?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml
Important: if you have uploaded any important files to one of the cloud file storage / blob containers on Rackspace, please download a copy as soon as possible.
But please do not download things you do not really want to keep to avoid adding any unnecessary bandwidth costs. If you have file write permission on one of those containers, please delete the files you own and do not need anymore.
Feel free to join this room to discuss the matter interactively: https://gitter.im/scikit-learn/nightly-build-hosting
Feel free to reply to this email on the scipy-dev mailing list if you have suggestions for setting up a free replacement.
-- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel _______________________________________________ SciPy-Dev mailing list SciPy-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-dev