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