It seems to me that HW diversity is good for test machines, but not for build machines. Build machines you want to be rock solid and repeatable. Test machines you want to span the range of real-world variability. IMHO, --Matt
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 11:22 PM, Nigel Daley wrote: > > 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. > > > > IMO, it would be better to have some diversity rather than what we > already have. The above can be done on EC2.
