[PD] nightly builds going away for now

András Murányi muranyia at gmail.com
Sat Aug 25 20:21:35 CEST 2012


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

> On 08/24/2012 03:27 PM, András Murányi wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at
> >wrote:
> >
> >>  On 08/21/2012 07:56 AM, Max wrote:
> >>
> >> I just talked to the administration and we can get a dedicated server
> with vm ware for different distros and a disk space of ~50 gb. plus a apple
> ppc machine. the guys from the hackerspace maschinenraum offered their help
> to install.
> >>
> >> m.
> >>
> >>
> >> That's a great offer!  I think we really need to think about how to make
> >> this decentralized, or at the very least take it out of my hands.
> >>
> >> For sure, the ubuntu boxes that I was running are gone for good, so they
> >> could set up some Ubuntu 32-bit and 64-bit instances.  I find that
> about 9
> >> gigs is the smallest useful system.
> >>
> >> .hc
> >>
> > Max's (institution's) offer is great. If the disk space is ~50GB, then,
> > according to HC, we can set up ~5 different systems. That's not bad, it
> can
> > even be totally enough - other systems would be Mac/PPC anyway. If,
> > however, you think the space is too tight, is it possible to throw in
> > another HDD? They are cheap and I could take care of setting up some kind
> > of Paypal-donations stuff on puredata.info in order to collect the
> money.
> > Re decentralization: i was thinking about using the VM server (plus the
> > other/private boxes) for slaves only, and setting up a master in the
> cloud.
> > There are free Jenkins services out there, I'm just not sure if 1.) you
> > like the idea 2.) those free services can be used for master only.
> > Additionally, I was thinking about storing the resulting builds on
> another
> > cloud service, but that may not be necessary with the ~5GB available
> with a
> > free Jenkins service.
> > Opinions welcome!
> >
> > PS I too a look at Gitian and I had the impression that it has the main
> > emphasis on security enforcement whilst usability/features are somewhat
> > lagging behind at the moment. So for now, I suggest that we go with
> > Jenkins, and try to reinforce authenticity by the means of the master.
> >
> > András
>
> did you mean to CC the list?
>
> One thing to consider is that with a bit more work, we can build
> Pd-extended for lots of Ubuntu platforms using launchpad.
>
> .hc
>
>
Yes i meant ccing to the list, sorry!

Launchpad builds from xyz-dev.deb packages, do I remember it right?

András
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