Re: New Hydra build slaves

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in> skribis:
>>
>>> On 03/03/2014 11:31 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>> BTW, it would be great if someone would volunteer to help with
>>>> administration of Hydra and the build machines.  So if someone is
>>>> interested, please let me know.
>>>
>>> Since I am here at TUM, I can help with volunteering the server here.
>>> How can I help?
>>
>> […]
>>
>> I was actually thinking of general Hydra administration.  Occasionally
>> machines may have troubles, like transient errors (networking, disk
>> space, random build issues, etc.) requiring manual intervention, or
>> occasional Hydra upgrades.
>>
>> There’s also the problem that our current setup is fairly hackish.
>> Having scripts to automate some of the tasks would be an improvement.
>
> I'd be pretty interested in getting involved in the system admin.
>
> I have experience with scripting and general maintenance of debian based
> systems, but no specific experience of working with or administrating
> hydra. Willing to learn though.

Great, sounds like a plan!  That’s definitely enough knowledge to get
started.  I will share the basic info about Hydra.

We should discuss the details off-line and probably set up a (private?)
mailing list to coordinate efforts.

Thank you,
Ludo’.