Hi Garrett!
> I'm sorry to open a thread that I'm sure will cause a lot of discussion most > of which will probably be fruitless and pointless. And yet, I feel > compelled to do this. Please think before you respond, and only reply if > you have some thing useful to add to this conversation. It is good that you have gone public now, since obviously nothing has happened since your last request. I am not going to address the followup by the Sparc haters spouting crap about "cruft" and "forward-looking" etc. etc. I also wish Martin would not get so upset, but that's the way he is. :-) Suffice it to say that Sparc is needed, if only as a corrective (see the old discussion from February 2012). However: > a) Hardware - we need at least three fairly decent configurations (4 CPUs or > better ideally) -- a build system for advocates, a build system open to all > illumos developers, and a reservable "test" system. (A sufficiently beefy > system - e.g. a 12 way system, could be used to serve both of the build > system needs, but I'd still prefer two separate boxes if possible.) In the > past there have been many people who have offered to donate -- in some cases > pretty high end -- SPARC hardware to illumos. We've failed to find a > location for it though. Offered this to you (E2900). The boxes are probably scrapped now. But I can ask again. > b) Rack space for the systems, with sufficient power, cooling, and network > bandwidth for 24x7 operation. We also need remote console access to all > three systems, and ideally some kind of remote power control for at least > the test system. I think we should like to see a 12-month commitment to > keep these things running; we don't want to go to the expense and trouble of > setting them up only to find we have to vacate a few weeks later. Recognize > that two of these systems are going need very wide access to allow any > illumos developer to have access. (We'll do some basic validation of email > addresses, and use public key SSH authentication, and we an even arrange for > a "click to agree" legal agreement process before granting access.) Offered this to you (Frankfurt, Germany). Need to check if the offer still stands and if the kind person offering housing wants to act through me, or would consider dealing directly. The exact details about network access would need to be worked out. > c) If "a" and "b" are not co-located, then funds to ship the servers to the > hosting location. Could have managed. > d) Human resources (administrative) to perform basic system administration > and setup of the above resources, including a calendaring system for > managing the test reservations. I *suspect* that this is the one resource > we will find in plenty once the others are answered. So please wait to > reply to this until we see if a - c are forthcoming. Couldn't do that -- ENOTIME. > In the past I tried be a middleman for this conversation -- it didn't work > out so well. Lots of offers for hardware came, but nobody with resources to > host them, or an ability to ship hardware to the destination. See above. So what's next? Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: [email protected] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
