Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 07:19 +0100, Steve Long wrote: >> This guy: http://gentoovm.blogspot.com/ works for vmware according to his >> first post here: http://www.vmwhere.net/category/gentoo/ (where he makes >> clear he has nothing to do with releng, and that his work is in no way to >> be seen as official.) He might be a good guy to rope in? He seems to be >> having trouble with hosting and hasn't released since 2006.0 so he'd most >> likely welcome the approach, imo. > > He was on the bug. Also, people seem to forget that we would also very > likely have an issue with hosting, too. We do not have unlimited space > on our community-donated mirrors. Yeah I hear that a lot from gentoo devs on irc. Funny thing is, whenever I turn around and say "Oh there was someone the other day asking whether they could donate CPU time and bandwidth," they suddenly lose all interest. I have no idea why.
People don't feel good about donating to an email address. > It has always been a constant > struggle within Release Engineering to keep our sizes down. This is one > of the reasons that we've not undertaken such a task. To be honest, > once I get support in catalyst, it'll be much more likely that I'll end > up creating these, since I'll be able to share the catalyst caches and > such between LiveDVD and VM image builds, so it'll take almost no time > to produce the builds. > So is it the time or the hosting requirement that's the overwhelming factor? As users are clearly happy to step up and fill in the gaps (as that page and the bug show.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
