Re: Debian services and Debian infrastructure

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 01/23/2014 06:07 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> Who's then to ensure that machine is secured and kept up to date with
> security patches and doesn't become a source of spam?

Just like for every hosting solution: you deal with it when it happens.
With my 10 years experience of running a hosting business, I don't think
this is a huge problem.

On 01/23/2014 06:07 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> Sorry to say, but
> most developers are not good sysadmins

I'm sure they are better than let's say 90% of my customers.

On 01/23/2014 06:07 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> It's sgran who's been thinking about how to do this, but afaik he's
> seen close to zero interest from developers for it, so it's not
> happened yet.  I don't think we need anything from the DPL as such,
> but if people are actually interested in something like this
> happening, saying so would be a good start.

I'm convinced as well that there's no demand for it.

However, if we start doing some CI things (like piuparts, adequat,
rebuild & rebuild twice and so on) on each upload, then it makes sense
to have a cloud with throwable VMs. And there's all sorts of compute
loads that we could make a very good use of. It'd be super nice to have
the archive rebuild jobs running on the Debian infrastructure rather
than on AWS for example.

Cheers,

Thomas