On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:49:51PM +0000, Paul Moore wrote: > 2009/10/30 C. Titus Brown <c...@msu.edu>: > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:21:06PM +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Sorry for the little redundancy, I would like to underline Jean-Paul's > >> suggestion here: > >> > >> Le Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:05:12 +0000, exarkun a ??crit??: > >> > I think that money can help in two ways in this case. > >> > > >> > First, there are now a multitude of cloud hosting providers which will > >> > operate a slave machine for you. ?BuildBot has even begun to support > >> > this deployment use-case by allowing you to start up and shut down vms > >> > on demand to save on costs. ?Amazon's EC2 service is supported out of > >> > the box in the latest release. > >> > >> I'm not a PSF member, but it seems to me that the PSF could ask Amazon > >> (or any other virtual machine business anyway) to donate a small number > >> of permanent EC2 instances in order to run buildslaves on. > > > > [ ... ] > > > > I'm happy to provide VMs or shell access for Windows (XP, Vista, 7); Linux > > ia64; Linux x86; and Mac OS X. ?Others have made similar offers. ?The > > architectures supported by the cloud services don't really add anything > > (and generally don't have Mac OS X support, AFAIK). > > As Antione pointed out, it's not clear (at least, it isn't to me) what > that leaves to be done.
Great! We've solved the problem ;) > As a counter-offer: Given remote access to however many Windows VMs > you want to provide, I'll get them up and running with buildslaves on > them. If that requires software such as Visual Studio, I have copies > via the MSDN licenses that I am happy to provide. I, too, have MSDN licenses, and I have functioning build environments on all of the VMs (I think -- I've only tested Win XP currently: http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/python/detail?result_key=8276 ) I also have an OS X 10.5 machine that I can let you into through a firewall; it's building Python 2.7 quite nicely: http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/python/detail?result_key=8229 > Once things are up and running, I'll be prepared to do basic care and > feeding of the buildslave, but as my time is limited, it would be nice > if others would pitch in to help. I would be somewhat unhappy about giving more than three or four people admin access, but am prepared to lie back and think of England. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
