On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:27:04PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > Hi all, > > You might have read the short take in the X.org board meeting minutes > already, here's the long version. > > The good news: gitlab.fd.o has become very popular with our > communities, and is used extensively. This especially includes all the > CI integration. Modern development process and tooling, yay! > > The bad news: The cost in growth has also been tremendous, and it's > breaking our bank account. With reasonable estimates for continued > growth we're expecting hosting expenses totalling 75k USD this year, > and 90k USD next year. With the current sponsors we've set up we can't > sustain that. We estimate that hosting expenses for gitlab.fd.o > without any of the CI features enabled would total 30k USD, which is > within X.org's ability to support through various sponsorships, mostly > through XDC. > > Note that X.org does no longer sponsor any CI runners themselves, > we've stopped that. The huge additional expenses are all just in > storing and serving build artifacts and images to outside CI runners > sponsored by various companies. A related topic is that with the > growth in fd.o it's becoming infeasible to maintain it all on > volunteer admin time. X.org is therefore also looking for admin > sponsorship, at least medium term. > > Assuming that we want cash flow reserves for one year of gitlab.fd.o > (without CI support) and a trimmed XDC and assuming no sponsor payment > meanwhile, we'd have to cut CI services somewhere between May and June > this year. The board is of course working on acquiring sponsors, but > filling a shortfall of this magnitude is neither easy nor quick work, > and we therefore decided to give an early warning as soon as possible. > Any help in finding sponsors for fd.o is very much appreciated. > > Thanks, Daniel
So this cost is all about fd.o? I feel that this was not communicated to x.org members at all, when fd.o "merging" was suggested. In as far as this was a merge. Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
