On 05-09-2025 02:37, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
Hi Denis,
I feel like making people wait around for CI to run isn't a great use
of our collective time.
+1 to more Salsa CI runner resources.
Is there a way for companies or institutes to contribute by supplying
compute cycles from their clusters or data centres?
Do you represent and organization willing to donate capacity?
Maybe :-)
Some potential donors have expressed their willingness to contribute
resources tickets at https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support, see e.g.
https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/-/issues/301, but based on what
I have understood from Salsa Admins is that it is easier for them to
simply expand the existing fleet at Google Cloud than to support hosts
across multiple cloud providers / datacenters.
Seeing that exclusive root access is a demand for donating runners, that
may be a complicating issue. And if the Salsa admins have to spend more
effort to get additional runners that are not from the Google Cloud I
understand that this is, at least at the moment, not worth pursuing.
Maybe if some future enhancement would make it very easy to add and
manage runners from a broader range of providers, we could discuss this
again. But I do not know how difficult that would be.
