Hi, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote on 27/03/2024 at 00:24:30+0100: > Hi, > > As you know, there's a large amount of money sleeping in SPI account > for Debian. Do you have ideas on how to spend it? > > Would you be ok spending 100k USD on buying hardware for a new Debian > cloud, for example? I've always volunteered to operate it for Debian, > but it never went through, because I haven't spent time to find where > to host it and so on, but highvoltage liked the idea. Do you like this > idea? Do you think it'd be useful for Debian? Please, let's take some time to think about the implications of spending a shitload of money to buy hardware that we wouldn't know where to host, and that would require a load of maintenance and time. If any discussion should arise on these matters, I'd rather them to occur not as a platform for a DPL candidate but after a reasonable discussion with the concerned parties, eg, DSA. > Also, I found very annoying that we don't have enough buildd, or that > the reproducible build project doesn't have as much hardware as they > would like. Would it be ok to spend another 100k USD for this kind of > things? Same, with slightly less concern regarding hardware volume and maintenance. > For some packages of mine, the current shared runners are too slow to > even run time-based tests of openvswitch for example... What about the > Salsa CI? Couldn't we pay some cloud providers to have faster shared > runners? It wouldn't be hard to hook them. -- PEB
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