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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 07:19 +0100, Steve Long wrote: |
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>> This guy: http://gentoovm.blogspot.com/ works for vmware according to his |
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>> first post here: http://www.vmwhere.net/category/gentoo/ (where he makes |
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>> clear he has nothing to do with releng, and that his work is in no way to |
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>> be seen as official.) He might be a good guy to rope in? He seems to be |
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>> having trouble with hosting and hasn't released since 2006.0 so he'd most |
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>> likely welcome the approach, imo. |
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> He was on the bug. Also, people seem to forget that we would also very |
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> likely have an issue with hosting, too. We do not have unlimited space |
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> on our community-donated mirrors. |
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Yeah I hear that a lot from gentoo devs on irc. Funny thing is, whenever I |
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turn around and say "Oh there was someone the other day asking whether they |
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could donate CPU time and bandwidth," they suddenly lose all interest. I |
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have no idea why. |
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People don't feel good about donating to an email address. |
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> It has always been a constant |
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> struggle within Release Engineering to keep our sizes down. This is one |
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> of the reasons that we've not undertaken such a task. To be honest, |
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> once I get support in catalyst, it'll be much more likely that I'll end |
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> up creating these, since I'll be able to share the catalyst caches and |
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> such between LiveDVD and VM image builds, so it'll take almost no time |
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> to produce the builds. |
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So is it the time or the hosting requirement that's the overwhelming factor? |
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As users are clearly happy to step up and fill in the gaps (as that page |
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and the bug show.) |
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