For the windows stuff has amazon's ec2 been considered?
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthieb...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Florian Effenberger > <flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > Thorsten Behrens wrote on 2013-01-29 18:25: > >> > >> In total, the request would be, for 2013, a budget of > >> > >> > >> ** 8.000,00 € ** > >> > >> for this setup (plan is to start with one EX4 and then ramp it up, > >> thus we don't incur the full cost in the first months). > > > > > > because installing your own Windows with Hetzner is a tedious if not > > impossible task, or you have to rent expensive licenses, we are > evaluating > > various options right now. Norbert is currently working on a donated > machine > > to see if we can virtualize everything and if that particular machine > can be > > used. There's also another sponsor offer available that might work out. > > > > Therefore, I propose we hold off from this for the moment, and request a > new > > budget when required. Given we have approx. 30.000 € unallocated for the > > 2013 planning, this should work out. > > Well, in the request above there was also > 1/ a couple of these EX2 to be use for linux gerrit buildboxing > 2/ budget to get a Mac to do release on a TDF owned and controlled > box, which will also help for builbot when not doing release build. > (on top of the 2 I already provide) > > These two should still move along... > Beside, I would ask that the above budget be 'reserved' until the > situation clarify. if we find way to do it cheaper great... but I > would not want to be stuck until next year because everything has been > spent already, nor would I like for us to have to dig in the reserve > for that predictable and anticipated need. > > Norbert > > -- Jonathan Aquilina
