[OpenIndiana-discuss] Tasks to focus on

[Chris]

On 2021-01-07 19:06, Till Wegmueller wrote:
> On 07.01.21 23:47, Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 13:57, Till Wegmueller <toasterson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I will get myself a Physical host with Hetzner with a ton of RAM and CPU
>>> so we can dedicate some zones and VM's to OpenIndiana building packages.
>>> Olaf has been working on a revised Jenkins pipeline which fully
>>> automates PR builds and allows to push them into seperate repos for
>>> testing with others. So others can just use that repo for testing and
>>> don't need to build. We will implement that Capability there.
>> 
>> Before you spend any money, or at least in parallel with doing so, I
>> would encourage you to see if Fosshost will provide some resources for
>> the project.  They have reached out to illumos in the past, and I
>> think OpenIndiana meets all of their eligibility criteria (open
>> source, no commercial backing, etc):
>> 
>>      https://fosshost.org
>> 
>> It seems they will provide one or more virtual machines to projects
>> for hosting of web resources and builds and such.
>> 
> 
> Oh nice will have a talk with them also. That one server is not just for OI, 
> it is
> also to replace my failed HomeLab server and move stuff from that out to a 
> DC. And
> then also to host some company resources and others. But Of course I would 
> not
> need that much RAM for that.
> 
> Let's see what they can do. But having infrastructure under our control is 
> the
> Goal. Evercity is doing a very good sponsoring but we need to do updates to 
> the
> Jenkins infrastructure and redo the setup. So having somewhere where we can 
> do
> that without needing to burden work onto others is one of our goals with 
> this. And
> we will also need a couple of package servers.
You might also be interested in what Oregon State University is offering
(free to opren source && includes IPv6)
https://osuosl.org/services/hosting/

> 
>>> We also talked about making a rustup.mk which will use jmclulows rustup
>>> work to bootstrap a rust compiler to build rust software and rust itself.
>> 
>> If you hit any trouble with Rust, I'd love to hear about it!  We have
>> a good relationship with the Rust project itself, so we should be able
>> to get things fixed as they arise, without needing to float additional
>> patches.
> 
> Will let you know how it went in any case. I expect no big problems though.
> 
> -Till
> 
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