Re: Apologies for slow progress...

2020-08-02 Thread Mark Evenson



> On Aug 1, 2020, at 22:00, Robert Goldman  wrote:
> 
> I'm afraid I have been very busy at work, but also the linux box I have been 
> using as my Jenkins platform had a disk failure, taking it out of action.

[…]

> If anyone has hosting suggestions, please let me know: otherwise I'm afraid 
> we'll be limping along till September, which is unfortunate, since we have a 
> bunch of fixes and bug reports, and I would very much like to be able to get 
> these wrapped up into a bug fix release.
> 
> I hope you all are staying safe and healthy!


We would potentially be interested in hosting the ASDF CI on common-lisp.net 
with gitlab
CI.  We would have to work out the kinks with using commercial CL
implementations including reaching out to Allegro and LispWorks for proper
licensing.  Providing CI containers for tuned for ANSI CL implementations has
long been on our desired features, so this would line up well with where we
want to push the services offered by common-lisp.net.

It would take an unknown amount of work to provide this service to ASDF 
provided by an
unspecified number of volunteers, but given the importance of ASDF to everyone,
I believe we could attract a decent amount of help.  If there is a decent
alternative with Travis or some other service, and just getting things running
again rather than being a guinea pig for new services is your priority, then
please pursue that path.

We have a CLF board meeting this Wednesday at 1900 UTC where I could advance 
such
an idea, and we could coordinate on reaching out to the commercial vendors for
(hopefully free) licensing term details.

CLF board meeting attendence is more or less open to those who wish to attend
via GOOG meet.  Either drop me a mail, or stop by #common-lisp.net to get the
connection details.

-- 
"A screaming comes across the sky.  It has happened before but there is nothing 
to compare to it now."








Re: Apologies for slow progress...

2020-08-02 Thread Marco Antoniotti
Yep.  Let me second that.

All the best

Marco




On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 12:01 PM cage  wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 03:00:31PM -0500, Robert Goldman wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> [...]
>
> I think there is no needs  to apologize, i believe everyone appreciate
> your works as ASDF maintainer and all efforts you put on this project.
>
> Bye!
> C.
>
>

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Re: Apologies for slow progress...

2020-08-02 Thread cage
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 03:00:31PM -0500, Robert Goldman wrote:

Hi!

[...]

I think there is no needs  to apologize, i believe everyone appreciate
your works as ASDF maintainer and all efforts you put on this project.

Bye!
C.



Re: Apologies for slow progress...

2020-08-01 Thread Stelian Ionescu
On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 15:00 -0500, Robert Goldman wrote:
> I'm afraid I have been very busy at work, but also the linux box I
> have 
> been using as my Jenkins platform had a disk failure, taking it out
> of 
> action.
> 
> No data was lost, but my employer has been supplying this, and I have
> to 
> wait in the queue, after business requirements, for the IT folks to
> get 
> me a new server configured for this purpose.
> 
> This has unavoidably hindered my work on ASDF.
> 
> I'm open to suggestions about alternative resources for running
> these 
> tests, but there are special challenges because I need to be able to
> put 
> commercial software (Allegro CL and LispWorks) on any test server,
> which 
> I think rules out using Travis.

What are the challenges ? Allegro works well on Travis, and the limitations
of Lispworks Personal are well known.

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.



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Apologies for slow progress...

2020-08-01 Thread Robert Goldman
I'm afraid I have been very busy at work, but also the linux box I have 
been using as my Jenkins platform had a disk failure, taking it out of 
action.


No data was lost, but my employer has been supplying this, and I have to 
wait in the queue, after business requirements, for the IT folks to get 
me a new server configured for this purpose.


This has unavoidably hindered my work on ASDF.

I'm open to suggestions about alternative resources for running these 
tests, but there are special challenges because I need to be able to put 
commercial software (Allegro CL and LispWorks) on any test server, which 
I think rules out using Travis.


If anyone has hosting suggestions, please let me know: otherwise I'm 
afraid we'll be limping along till September, which is unfortunate, 
since we have a bunch of fixes and bug reports, and I would very much 
like to be able to get these wrapped up into a bug fix release.


I hope you all are staying safe and healthy!