Generally speaking, our requirements for equipment to be used as
buildd/porter
machines are as follows:
* reliability - The stable release manager requires that we operate
three machines for each port: two buildd machines in different
locations and one porter machine. These machines must be reliable.
We already got ipa.debian.net, if David can give more nodes to Debian,
then I think the requirement can be fulfilled.
That we can do! Will I arrange this offline with someone in particular?
* out of band management - We require the ability to manage the machines
independently of their primary network interface: serial console or
better, remotely-controllable power.
David, could you also allow Debian admins into IPMI interface?
Yup, shouldn¹t be a problem.
* supportability - We require that the machines be commercialy available
(within financial constraints) and that they be supportable through a
warranty or post-warranty support or are otherwise easy to replace.
Those machines are selling commercially now.
* stability - We require that the machine's architecture have an
actively-maintained stable kernel in the archive.
Currently, there is an effort on going, as I explained above, but it
is not yet finished, just starting:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/linux-image-3.9-1-armmp
* environment - We require that packages critical for DSA operations be
available: puppet, samhain, syslog-ng, ferm/pf, etc.
The armhf port already contains those.
We would prefer to house such equipment in one of the data centres
where we
have an existing presence (grnet (Greece), man-da (Germany), ubcece
(Canada))
but we are amenable to a discussion regarding having a business host the
equipment on our behalf as long as the above requirements are met.
These will need to remotely accessed - we have a 24 node system that we
use for customer to benchmark/test remotely. I can allocate one or two
nodes on this but unfortunately couldn't provide a full chassis.
In response to some of the other threads, I'll give some of the
suggestions a try (kernel 3.9.1) and report back.
Thanks,
Dave
Please let me know how you'd like to proceed.
And thank you for your offer. It is *only* through the generous
donation of
time, equipment and/or funds from businesses and/or individuals such as
yourself that volunteers are able to make the operating system known as
Debian.
Thanks again,
Luca
Debian System Administration Team
Debian Hardware Donations Team
--
Luca Filipozzi
http://www.crowdrise.com/SupportDebian
Regards,
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Debian ARM porter
Debian ARM buildd admin
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