GitHub user mdedetrich edited a comment on the discussion: On the project's stability, future and funding
> Can't we make a case to ASF if we need hardware or VMs. Infrastructure team > are helpful in this regard? If we spec out a requirement, we may be able to > advertise it if the Infra team can't help. I already did and I attended their roundup, they don't have dedicated machines and there is no desire to do so. If we want dedicated VM's we need to self host and we are all on our own. > A corporate entity or one of the big cloud providers might be able to help > with VM time. I would prefer not to be reliant on a company for something as critical as VM's/CI. If a cloud provider that has dedicated machines can sponsor us, then great, however the whole point of https://opencollective.com/ is to solve problems like this. Companies that rely on Pekko can give us monthly donations and we can use that money to procure hardware in a completely transparent manner. Also note there are other Apache projects on OpenCollective, its not just us. > If there is money to be donated, there is an argument to focus it at > developers who are giving up their free time. So a dedicated machine on https://www.hetzner.com/ is around 50-70 euroes a month, we would need at most two (one for benchmarking and one for CI/multicluster tests). Thats not a lot of money and there is a strong argument that using the money in this way would save a lot more developer time versus just giving it to developers (personally I would not take 50-140 euroes a month over saving many many hours on CI runs, something that is shared for all of ASF contributors). Now if we end up getting significant amounts of money then yes this is definitely something we can consider, and the point of OpenCollective is it also solves this problem (i.e. paying OpenSource developers from donated company/user funds). GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko/discussions/144#discussioncomment-6189008 ---- This is an automatically sent email for [email protected]. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
