Re: Spending Debian money for porter boxes [Was: The archive now supports xz compression]

2011-08-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > I concur and I'll be happy to approve such usage of Debian money. > > FWIW, what is needed to make this kind of things happen is not > > really money. What is missing is rather a bit of coordination of > > people that: 1) keep track of what hardware

Re: Spending Debian money for porter boxes

2011-08-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tollef Fog Heen | The ones you mentioned on IRC were sparc and powerpc. PowerPC is | getting an extra debian.net porterbox as we speak, this one being a quad | 2.5GHz G5 with 6G memory and 500G disk. (It'll run a buildbot for | Varnish so it won't be a DSA machine.) The machine is now live

Re: Spending Debian money for porter boxes

2011-08-22 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:44:08 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > The ones you mentioned on IRC were sparc and powerpc. PowerPC is > getting an extra debian.net porterbox as we speak, this one being a quad > 2.5GHz G5 with 6G memory and 500G disk. (It'll run a buildbot for > Varnish so it won't be a

Re: Spending Debian money for porter boxes

2011-08-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Mike Hommey | Speaking of which. It would also totally be an appropriate use of Debian | money to get new porter boxes that fit the buildds. Most of the non x86 | porter boxes are pathetically slow, which is even sadder when you know | the buildd boxes for the same architectures are an order o

Re: Spending Debian money for porter boxes [Was: The archive now supports xz compression]

2011-08-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:51:02AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > What is missing is rather a bit of coordination of people that: > [..] > > Any taker? > > Well, according to [1] and [2], we have some hardware donations > coordinators, and at [3] we have a list of needed hardware. >

Re: Spending Debian money for porter boxes [Was: The archive now supports xz compression]

2011-08-22 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 21.08.2011 18:59, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: [ more powerful hardware needed ] > What is missing is rather a bit of coordination of people that: [..] > Any taker? Well, according to [1] and [2], we have some hardware donations coordinators, and at [3] we have a list of needed hardware.

Re: Spending Debian money for porter boxes [Was: The archive now supports xz compression]

2011-08-22 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sat Aug 20, 2011 at 20:45:18 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > On 2011-08-11, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > >> Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will wast

Re: Spending Debian money for porter boxes [Was: The archive now supports xz compression]

2011-08-21 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 08:45:18PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: >> > Wouldn't it be better to get more buildds for those archs, then? >> > That would be a totally appropriate use of Debian money... >> >> Speaking of which. It would also tot

Re: Spending Debian money for porter boxes [Was: The archive now supports xz compression]

2011-08-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 08:45:18PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Wouldn't it be better to get more buildds for those archs, then? > > That would be a totally appropriate use of Debian money... > > Speaking of which. It would also totally be an appropriate use of Debian > money to get new porter bo

Spending Debian money for porter boxes [Was: The archive now supports xz compression]

2011-08-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2011-08-11, Adam Borowski wrote: > > >> Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will waste more > > >> time - an especially bad problem on slower architectures.