On 07/01/2017 at 14:01 Leo Famulari writes: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 05:36:04PM +0000, ng0 wrote: [...] >> 0: What is it these days? Is hydra now just a in-retirement frontend >> for cuirass or how does bayfront work these days? I understand cuirass, >> not hydra. > > ... Bayfront is still not fully operational, so hydra.gnu.org is still > serving as the front-end of the build farm. We are still relying on the > Hydra software. That is, the situation is basically the same as before. > Adding build machines will not help very much until the front-end > hardware gets faster.
This leaves me wondering ... Is the hydra/front-end hardware going to be upgraded? Is bayfront/cuirass intended to replace hydra? The bayfront hardware described here ... https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/news/growing-our-build-farm.html ... seems weak to me. Is there a plan to scale it up and make it redundant? A reliable, resourced, managed, "nightly Guix build" should pay big dividends for the project. But, from reading the lists, I get the impression that such a thing does not exist. Is that correct? Do we know what would be needed to achieve a complete nightly build? TIA - George
