Bumping up this thread since another one seems to be starting over CI Amogh
On 5/27/14 8:28 PM, "David Nalley" <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: >On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> >wrote: >>> Like Chip, I am very concerned with this being dependent on a single >>> company, even if its the company that employs me. It isn't >>>sustainable, it >>> excludes others from contributing, and makes the project less >>>independent >>> because it depends on a single company's infrastructure. >> >> Agreed there. >> >>> >>> I'm also unclear on the answer to the question in the FAQ. The first >>>time I >>> read it, I got the impression that you were happy to bring it up on >>>hardware >>> at the ASF if the ASF wanted to own it. The second time I read it I >>>wondered >>> if you meant that Citrix was going to attempt to donate hardware. >>> >> Sorry if I did not make that clear. I meant the scripts/code that we >>wrote are checked in publicly and we're willing to help set it up if ASF >>provided the hardware. I have not approach Citrix on donating the >>actual hardware. Although I can approach them if it speeds up the >>adoption process. >> >>> Finally - what do you think you need from ASF infra to make this >>>happen? >>> >> >> It's currently about 10 servers with two networks. One network is >>static with IPMI to PXE boot the machines. The other network is the >>actual data network that CloudStack uses. That's actually just enough >>for XenServer and KVM. In order to accommodate for HyperV, Bare Metal, >>LXC, (which we do not have any test cases in the automation suits >>currently) we will need even more machines. We might be able to use >>nested virtualization for the hypervisors to maintain server count at >>ten or a little more than ten but we haven't explore that yet. >> >> The CI process is up and running on those machines but because we >>didn't have CI running on master before, automation tests that were >>passing for 4.3 are now broken again on 4.4. and master. I think Sudha >>already reported on the list that QA is busy trying to fix all the >>automation tests to bring CI on 4.4-forward and master back to 100% pass >>rate. Unfortunately, it's been delaying our effort to put this out in >>the public and let the community try this themselves. >> >> --Alex >> > >So the board just approved a 3 month budget, but the new board will >have to take up the remainder of the FY budget shortly after coming >into office. Perhaps worth coming up with an estimate of what this >will cost/need and getting it to president@ before that new budget is >taken up. > >--David
