On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 04:58:29PM -0000, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > On 04:31 pm, c...@msu.edu wrote: >> 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. > > Okay, let's move on this. Martin has, I believe, said that potential > slave operators only need to contact him to get credentials for new > slaves. Can you make sure to follow up with him to get slaves running > on these machines? Or would you rather give out access to someone else > and have them do the build slave setup?
I think we crossed threads here; I can provide the VMs, and access to them, but I won't (empirically, don't have the regular time available to ;) maintain buildbot buildslaves. You or Antoine or others are welcome to contact me off-list. Just give me an account name and ssh key, and I'll give you login access via tunneled Remote Desktop to the Windows machines. >> Others have made similar offers. > > I'll similarly encourage them to take action, then. Do you happen to > remember who? Every few months this thread seems to pop up and then fizzles when people realize the level of work and attention involved (<- he says cynically) in exploiting the offer of resources; I hope that anyone interested in offering resources will pop their head up again to look around. > I hope everyone is on board with the idea of fixing bugs in CPython, > either in the actual implementation of features or in the tests for > those features. That being the case, the discussion of whether or not > the PSF should try to fund such a task is perhaps best discussed on the > PSF members list. Sure. --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
