Wouldn't it be interesting to build some Virtual Machines that people could grab and deploy directly in the cloud ? It might interest people willing to contribute hardware but not having much time to dedicate at maintaining it.
I personnaly have a spare Desktop with a Quad Core and 4G of RAM that could run at leat 4 VMs. My 2 cents :-D Matthieu On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:45 AM, simonjwoolf < simonjustinwo...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We would be happy to contribute space on one of our staging dedicated > servers. > Our stack is: > > CentOS 5 > MySQL 5.0 (using InnoDB as standard, but you are welcome to have a > MyISAM database as well) > Python 2.6 > Lighttpd 1.4.23 > > Let me know if this is useful, and perhaps contact me privately to > discuss details of getting it set up. > > Simon Woolf > Loopo > > > On Feb 26, 4:08 am, "Sean O'Connor" <sean.b.ocon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A platform we probably should get into the mix is a CentOS/RHEL 5 box. I > > suspect a significant portion of the community is stuck on such boxes and > > given the ancient versions of everything available under RHEL I'm sure > that > > there are things which will break there and not in a developer's standard > > environment. > > > > I personally don't have a suitable RHEL box laying around but this seems > > like a good candidate for either another volunteer or DSF funds. > > > > ____________________________ > > Sean O'Connorhttp://seanoc.com > > > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Eric Holscher <e...@ericholscher.com > >wrote: > > > > > Hey everyone, > > > > > During the sprints, I worked to set up a hudson instance for Django. > This > > > is hopefully going to be the way that we are going to go forward for > now > > > with doing continuous integration for Django. I have a pretty good > setup > > > going currently, and want make it really fantastic. At this point in > time, > > > what we really need now is some more hardware to be able to run tests > on. > > > > > The current setup is hosted at:http://hudson.djangoproject.com/ > > > > > Currently, I have tests running on the following architectures: > > > > > Django trunk: > > > > > Solaris: > > > Python 2.4-2.5 > > > Databases: sqlite, postgres, mysql > > > > > Ubuntu: > > > Python 2.5-2.6 > > > Databases: sqlite, postgres, mysql > > > > > Django 1.1.X: > > > > > Solaris: > > > Python 2.5 > > > Databases: sqlite, postgres > > > > > This gives us pretty good coverage currently, but the whole point of > doing > > > CI is that we catch bugs on other platforms we wouldn't normally run > on. > > > > > What we need > > > =========== > > > > > So I'm looking for people who can offer other boxes that they would > like to > > > see tested. Currently the big ones we aren't covering are Windows > boxes, and > > > the Oracle backends. There are lots of other permutations that we could > be > > > testing against (Different python runtimes being a good example). > > > > > However, we don't want to get in a situation where boxes that people > have > > > set up just disappear. So, I'm only currently looking for machines that > > > people would be able to dedicate to the effort. We would require a > > > django-testing user account on the box, with our SSH key on it. There > would > > > also be a team of trusted users, who would have access to this key and > thus > > > your machine. > > > > > We want the build farm to be stable and useful, and in the past we have > had > > > too much trouble having machines just disappear. > > > > > Requirements > > > =========== > > > > > Currently the hudson requirements seem to be about <1GB of disk space, > with > > > 512MB of ram. I'm also looking into some pony build/barn based > alternatives > > > that would knock the memory requirements down pretty substantially. > However, > > > for the current 1.2 release it looks like hudson is how we're going to > make > > > it going forward. > > > > > Note that for $20/mo a 512MB machine can be run on Rackspace cloud, so > > > another way that we might be able to get this going is to be able to > have > > > donations to the DSF, and have them get some dedicated rackspace boxes. > > > However, for now, I'm hoping that we can cobble together enough stuff > to get > > > 1.2 tested really well. > > > > > Feedback > > > ========== > > > > > If you have any thoughts on CI, or any advice, I would love to hear it. > I'm > > > trying to make our Continuous Integration setup really kick ass, so > feedback > > > is necessary to do this. I have some notes and ideas that I have been > > > recording while setting things up over at the pycon etherpad: > > > > >http://pyconpads.net/django-testing > > > > > Let me know if you have any thoughts, questions, or concerns. > > > > > Cheers, > > > Eric > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Django developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > django-develop...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > <django-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-developers%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. 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