Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-12-11 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, ok. I can start with turning this into a checklist in the wiki. After that I’d like walk through those things with someone. Things can take a while currently, as I’m on parental leave. :) Christian > On 08 Dec 2015, at 13:07, Domen Kožar wrote: > > Hey Christian, > >

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

2015-12-11 Thread Domen Kožar
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 12/11/2015 05:24 PM, Domen Kožar wrote: > > What usually happens in "bigger" enterprises is that they hire someone > > internally that doesn't have enough expertise and then he/she would bug > > upstream developers to

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

2015-12-11 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 12/08/2015 05:22 PM, Domen Kožar wrote: > There are lots of debates how enterprises should/could fund open source > instead of expecting free labor, but we're not there yet :-) What works well IMO is that company wants to use an open-source tool (e.g. nix*) to do something (e.g. CI), but some

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

2015-12-11 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 12/11/2015 05:24 PM, Domen Kožar wrote: > What usually happens in "bigger" enterprises is that they hire someone > internally that doesn't have enough expertise and then he/she would bug > upstream developers to provide help for free. That's where we have a > problem in general :) I see. IMHO

Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

2015-12-11 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 12/08/2015 03:31 PM, Matthias Beyer wrote: > Maybe you guys have some more ideas on what we can do and how we could do > it. Feel free to post your crazy ideas, I want _everything_ I could > possible > do in my bachelors thesis. Perhaps NixOS containers instead of full VMs? That

Re: [Nix-dev] [Bachelors Thesis] Studi-Cloud VMs managing with Nix?

2015-12-11 Thread Marc Weber
VMs: Either you put the 'iso's on disk, then each VM has its own data on disk (may startup faster) - or you "share data" and fetch it via network (nfs or whatever) - like "network booting", then you can share, ad you can have "one nixos host" sharing all mysql/postgresql and the configs required

Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-12-11 Thread Joachim Schiele
nice to hear that you want to do this. i've added a documentation about the setup process in the wiki, it can be found here: https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_hydra_as_nixos_module On 11.12.2015 12:05, Christian Theune wrote: > Hi, > > ok. I can start with turning this into a checklist in the

Re: [Nix-dev] Fundraiser?

2015-12-11 Thread Domen Kožar
This is a good example of what I meant: https://github.com/pybee/paying-the-piper On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Domen Kožar wrote: > There are lots of debates how enterprises should/could fund open source > instead of expecting free labor, but we're not there yet :-) > > On Tue,

Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-12-11 Thread aszlig
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:02:04AM +0100, Domen Kožar wrote: > Is anyone willing to step up and help the community? I'm running several Hydra instances both public and private but I'm not sure whether I'd bu qualified for this as well, because I tend to hate Perl with a passion :-D But if nobody