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* Re: Shutting down qa.guix?
@ 2023-12-14 13:38 Jing
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From: Jing @ 2023-12-14 13:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi everyone,

Forgive me for cutting in a conversation like this. I believe qa.guix 
can still be salvaged: I can host it per gratis, at least temporarily.

I am the admin of repo.jing.rocks, and I own the hardware. The servers 
are in my bedroom/living room. Adding qa.guix would cost nothing for me.

 > As for system administration, is there documentation that people 
willing to help could look at?  Very concrete things like: what services 
are running on which machines, what do I do if one of them is stuck or 
if I get this error message, etc.

Yes, docs are important, and I couldn't find one. What kind of spec does 
qa.guix require to keep operational? I see in the threads:

 > Storage is also an issue as beid currently is working with 340G of 
total storage and that's almost full [..]

I can spare a few terabytes of spinning rust storage. How about RAM and 
CPU? Does 64 vcpus (AMD EPYC 7773X) and 128GB RAM sound enough? If 
anyone wants to know to full spec, I can write it later.

Please note that the hardware I own requires non-free firmware, will 
this be a problem? Also, I'm not a good programmer, I can't maintain any 
package. I'm still learning Guile syntax and how to adapt to Guix. 
Someone else would have to work with me to keep the whole system going. 
Will this be an issue?


For the stability of repo.jing.rocks, please refer to [1] and [2]:

[1] https://mirror-master.debian.org/status/mirror-info/repo.jing.rocks.html
[2] https://archlinux.org/mirrors/jing.rocks/

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Jing Luo
About me: https://jing.rocks/about/
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* November/December update on qa.guix.gnu.org and related things
@ 2023-12-06 13:32 Christopher Baines
  2023-12-09 10:54 ` Shutting down qa.guix? Ludovic Courtès
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From: Christopher Baines @ 2023-12-06 13:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

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Hey!

Not much has changed since the last update. There's a new "waiting for
builds" status, I tweaked some code around build cancelation, I put in
place a mitigation for #67194 affecting the build coordinator, and did
some investigation of the hurd locale issue (#67507).

As previously set out, I'm planning to stop hosting the data service
instances this year. While I would like to stop hosting the server for
data.guix.gnu.org, I am going to keep that going at least for the time
being as that will allow me to test out pruning the bordeaux nars among
other things. I am still planning to shutdown data.qa.guix.gnu.org and
QA which depends on it within the next couple of weeks. I do hope it can
return some point though, and hopefully sooner rather than later.

On this like most decisions I'm indecisive, I could try and keep the
current server going, but it's not the most cost effective setup and
it's very low on disk space. I could replace the server with some
slightly better setup, but this would still mean I'm managing a key part
of the infrastructure, which is something I'm trying to move away
from. There was some discussion of the project taking over the hosting,
and maybe that will happen at some point, but it hasn't happened yet. So
while not having qa.guix.gnu.org for a time isn't ideal, I'm still going
with this approach.

Given that the first prototype setup came (and went I think) sometime
back in 2019 [1], this stuff has been going on for a while now. From
that prototyping over the last few years, I think the current software
setup is something that can work long term and be iterated on. To take
this technical setup forward though, it would ideally happen more
through the project and no longer have key parts be reliant on me for
hosting.

1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg00089.html

Thanks,

Chris

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