You should check with ASF Infra for the actual answers - I'm just relaying my impressions from talking with them.
1) They don't want "targeted donations" - i.e., a donated machine that is solely for builds of a specific set of projects, rather than one that is available for builds of any project. 2) I honestly don't know, but as I mentioned, they do prefer to get actual boxes they can own rather than boxes or VMs living elsewhere. 3) I'm still trying to figure that out myself. =) A. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:38 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > A couple of questions for Nigel and Andrew: > > 1. What do you mean by "non-single-purpose machines" ? (I guess, machines > they can use for non-Hadoop projects as well ?) > > 2. Do these machines have to be physical boxes or virtual machines be okay > too ? (sudo on virtual machines would be easier to sell than on physical > boxes.) > > 3. What's the process for donations ? > > - milind > > --- > Milind Bhandarkar > Greenplum Labs, > EMC > > > > > On 8/2/11 8:07 AM, "Andrew Bayer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >FWIW, the ASF Infra guys aren't that keen on more machines they won't have > >physical control of. There may be some wiggle room on that, but they'll > >definitely need sudo and they would much prefer non-single-purpose > >machines. > >Just a heads up from my talks with Infra lately. > > > >A. > > > >On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Nigel Daley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Folks, > >> > >> Given the Hadoop build machines have been offline for a few day, this > >>would > >> be a good time to see if other companies can donate **access** to some > >> build hardware to diversify our donors. Currently there are roughly 30 > >> machines donated by Yahoo! > >> > >> Ideally the hardware is: > >> * hosted and OS managed by the donor, > >> * publicly addressable on the internet, > >> * running Ubuntu or CentOS, and > >> * sudo access can be given to Apache's Jenkins admins so they can create > >> accounts for committers as needed. > >> > >> Anyone? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Nige > >> > >
