Infrastructure Announcement: The future of OfBorg – Your Help Needed!

[lassulus]

afaik we are already at 60 concurrent jobs.
Getting the SC and the board to engage with github to get to a higher level (and maybe some enterprise sponsorship?) is also on our agenda

[ron]

I can get us a call with the teams on the Github side, can folks add into this thread here so we can track all requests/feedback/issue?
Github Request List - Feedback/Issues/Features · Issue #25 · NixOS/foundation

If you’re interested to be part of the call please ping me.

[Infinisil]

Equinix Metal, CTA & Infra Short Update

Short TL;DR (More information can be found in Mic92s post): Infrastructure Announcement: The future of OfBorg – Your Help Needed! - Announcements - NixOS Discourse Equinix Metal has been providing in-kind sponsorship/funding to our needs for a while! Thank you to Edward Vielmetti and the entire team there. Equinix needs to roll back this funding going into next year and we are launching an effort to ensure continuity for the short term and sustainability for the longer term. The board (aka me)…

[Infinisil]

The next part of this is done now: GitHub Actions now assign rebuild labels in ~5 minutes!

Use GHA eval to assign rebuild labels

[rhendric]

So, for committers: is OfBorg redundant now, or should we still wait for it to eval before merging PRs?

[Atemu]

ofBorg still pings maintainers and builds packages. I’d wait unless the maintainers were already pinged for a sufficiently long time and build status is asserted.

[pyrox]

Not sure where else to post this, but the eval action is failing for me with 502 errors. See nodePackages.webpack-cli: drop; webpack-cli: init at 5.1.4 · NixOS/nixpkgs@e39392e · GitHub .

[drupol]

This is a flaky issue, I am pretty sure it won’t happen if the workflow is restarted.

[liberodark]

Hi,

I think I can ask for a price to host your servers at a low cost.
Another point, another solution could be to take charge in a collective where I am who will host the servers at a very low cost.
Around 30€/per month per machine. If I remember correctly.
If this is still relevant I can ask for both solutions and see what can be done as soon as possible.

Best Regards

[nim65s]

(tetaneutral.net hat on)

When some collective can offer a very low price, it is often at the cost of availability: we don’t need to pay volunteers, but we can’t force them to work at any hour to fix broken stuff.

[Mic92]

Well, it very much depends on where the offer comes from. It could be very well just some sort of sponsorship/open-source discount. @liberodark could you maybe provide some details in the #infra:nixos.org matrix channel, about where these resources would come from?

[liberodark]

Hi @Mic92 yes i can send more information.

Best Regards