Re: Plan B for kfreebsd
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > [...] if that's helpful, Debian funds could be allocated to
> > that effect. (Note that, concretely, I don't really see how Debian funds
> > could help here; but you might have more ideas)
>
> Thanks Lucas; I think there are places where Debian funds or resources
> could be useful - like KVM VMs, or public cloud credits - otherwise I
> may have been looking for sponsors for these things :
>
> * somewhere to build and host the install media
cdimage.d.o/d-i.d.o. Talk to the cd and d-i folks.
> * somewhere to host repositories:
> - snapshots.d.o could already be useful as basis for stable
> - a supplemental repository for stable, which I'm sure we'll need
> - a repository for an unofficial testing-like suite, possibly
ftp.debian.org and all its mirrors. Talk to the ftp people.
> * somewhere to build security and stable updates ourselves, if we
> can't do that on the regular buildds
If you have a jessie, you have build infrastructure.
> * random/cool stuff:
> - http.d.n-like redirector, in preference to a mess of APT sources
> - place to run c-i testing, QA tools
> - infrequent archive-wide rebuilds
Use the existing infrastructure.
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