Dear All,
I've mentioned this in passing to Howard and he was going to have a wee chat with the Samba guys at SambaXP about theirs:
So I popped into #samba-technical and asked about setting the above up. Few guys asked what for, and Jeremy Allison (http://samba.org/~jra/ and Google, in case you didn't know ;-) ) asked me to ping him a serious funding proposal:
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<wanon> did someone ask for money.... ? <ghenry> wanon: got some? ;-) <wanon> This is OpenLDAP right ? <ghenry> yup <wanon> put a proposal togther. A *serious* one, and mail it to me. <ghenry> wanon: Will do <ghenry> wanon: Tips? <ghenry> wanon: Should I google for your address? ;-) <ghenry> heh <wanon> Ask for a concrete amount, and give explicit reasons why you want it. <ghenry> Business plan? Or one pager? <wanon> One pager to start. <ghenry> Ok. Google funding, correct? <ghenry> excuse me if I should know, sorry <wanon> yep <ghenry> would you be kind enough to msg me your e-mail? <wanon> just google for it. <ghenry> heh, ok <wanon> or use my samba.org address * abartlet remembers the days when we didn't know who wanon was :-) <ghenry> So, funding proposal for OpenLDAP Build Farm. Thanks wanon <ghenry> going to post to openldap-devel then go from there with rest of team. thanks again all (abartlet wanon) <wanon> ok, works for me !
So, can we put a serious one together and get a build farm!
Thanks,
Gavin.
--On Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:18 AM +0100 Gavin Henry ghenry@suretecsystems.com wrote:
Dear All,
I've mentioned this in passing to Howard and he was going to have a wee chat with the Samba guys at SambaXP about theirs:
So I popped into #samba-technical and asked about setting the above up. Few guys asked what for, and Jeremy Allison (http://samba.org/~jra/ and Google, in case you didn't know ;-) ) asked me to ping him a serious funding proposal:
So, can we put a serious one together and get a build farm!
What exactly do you have in mind when you say "build farm"? A set of systems running different OSes to test builds (AIX, Solaris, HPUX, Linux 2.6, Windows, etc)?
--Quanah
-- Quanah Gibson-Mount Senior Systems Software Developer ITS/Shared Application Services Stanford University GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:17:01PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
So, can we put a serious one together and get a build farm!
What exactly do you have in mind when you say "build farm"? A set of systems running different OSes to test builds (AIX, Solaris, HPUX, Linux 2.6, Windows, etc)?
In the hope this is not again an abuse of the list: If you take a look at http://build.samba.org/ the hosts listed there regularly download the latest sources for several projects, compile them and run tests on them. The connectivity requirements for the hosts are very minimal: They only need to be able to rsync out. This has helped us (the Samba Team) big ways for portability, because many volunteers can donate free cycles.
Volker
<quote who="Quanah Gibson-Mount">
--On Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:18 AM +0100 Gavin Henry ghenry@suretecsystems.com wrote:
Dear All,
I've mentioned this in passing to Howard and he was going to have a wee chat with the Samba guys at SambaXP about theirs:
So I popped into #samba-technical and asked about setting the above up. Few guys asked what for, and Jeremy Allison (http://samba.org/~jra/ and Google, in case you didn't know ;-) ) asked me to ping him a serious funding proposal:
So, can we put a serious one together and get a build farm!
What exactly do you have in mind when you say "build farm"? A set of systems running different OSes to test builds (AIX, Solaris, HPUX, Linux 2.6, Windows, etc)?
Exactly:
"The samba.org build farm is designed to test the configuration, build, install, and some runtime aspects of some projects hosted on samba.org in real time."
See http://build.samba.org/about.html
and
Look at the drop down at above, the list of OSes is pretty impressive.
Once we have a core infrastructure of select OSs of our choosing, we can get users to add their machines like so:
http://build.samba.org/instructions.html
The whole Samba build source, including the website front end is available to us.
Companies that are interested in getting their hardware/OS supported will more than likely sign up their machines too.
I imagine getting funding for a couple of boxs in a data center for 3 years, buying or renting 2-3 servers for build farm management node/website etc.
Then we can all chip in to manage it, or work out the cost of 1-2 days a month/week to look after it by one of the companies/users involved in OpenLDAP to maintain it.
I'll speak to the Samba guys later and get a feel for the maintainance aspect.
Gavin.
--Quanah
-- Quanah Gibson-Mount Senior Systems Software Developer ITS/Shared Application Services Stanford University GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html
Volker Lendecke wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:17:01PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
So, can we put a serious one together and get a build farm!
What exactly do you have in mind when you say "build farm"? A set of systems running different OSes to test builds (AIX, Solaris, HPUX, Linux 2.6, Windows, etc)?
In the hope this is not again an abuse of the list: If you take a look at http://build.samba.org/ the hosts listed there regularly download the latest sources for several projects, compile them and run tests on them. The connectivity requirements for the hosts are very minimal: They only need to be able to rsync out. This has helped us (the Samba Team) big ways for portability, because many volunteers can donate free cycles.
This is unquestionably a great idea, one that we need to pursue, and one that I plan to chat with you Samba guys about in more detail soon. Some of the ideas we've been planning (self-tuning adaptive caching, etc.) require platform-specific knowledge at runtime and it's only going to fly if we can test adequately on a wide range of platforms.
<quote who="Volker Lendecke">
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:17:01PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
So, can we put a serious one together and get a build farm!
What exactly do you have in mind when you say "build farm"? A set of systems running different OSes to test builds (AIX, Solaris, HPUX, Linux 2.6, Windows, etc)?
In the hope this is not again an abuse of the list: If you take a look at http://build.samba.org/ the hosts listed there regularly download the latest sources for several projects, compile them and run tests on them. The connectivity requirements for the hosts are very minimal: They only need to be able to rsync out. This has helped us (the Samba Team) big ways for portability, because many volunteers can donate free cycles.
Volker
Exactly. I think this is a must for the OpenLDAP Project and that we really need to make a good proposal for Jerry to take to Google.
Gavin.
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