Hi,
As you know, there's a large amount of money sleeping in SPI account for
Debian. Do you have ideas on how to spend it?
Would you be ok spending 100k USD on buying hardware for a new Debian
cloud, for example? I've always volunteered to operate it for Debian,
but it never went through, because I haven't spent time to find where to
host it and so on, but highvoltage liked the idea. Do you like this
idea? Do you think it'd be useful for Debian?
Also, I found very annoying that we don't have enough buildd, or that
the reproducible build project doesn't have as much hardware as they
would like. Would it be ok to spend another 100k USD for this kind of
things?
For some packages of mine, the current shared runners are too slow to
even run time-based tests of openvswitch for example... What about the
Salsa CI? Couldn't we pay some cloud providers to have faster shared
runners? It wouldn't be hard to hook them.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
P.S: To other DDs reading: feel free to voice your opinion too.