[gentoo-project] Looking for resources to run 'repositories mirror & QA' project

[Michał Górny]

Hello, everyone.

I'd like to start a new Gentoo-related project and I'm looking for
someone that would be interested in providing the hardware for it.

The project would specifically involve:

1. cloning/checking out all official and unofficial Gentoo repositories
(from the repositories.xml list used by layman), and periodically
updating them,

2. generating md5-cache for all repositories,

3. running pcheck on all repositories,

4. providing git (+rsync? +squashdelta?) mirror for all repositories
(with generated md5-cache).

Eventually I'd like to try to off-load the mirroring somewhere
(github?), so that's a minor concern. However, the cloning (even with
--depth 1) is going to be network and disk space hungry, and egencache
& pcheck will need a lot of CPU power.

For a test, best try running pcheck on gentoo-x86 and see how long it
takes. We'd be parallelizing it but more than, say, 40 minutes for
the whole repository would be bad.

Aside from that, I'd like SSH access to set it all up (I'm limited on
time, so no game-fun proxy setup). I don't need root access if someone
can install all the necessary dependencies for me. Gentoo is preferred
but not necessary (I already have the setup needed to run pcheck
outside Gentoo).

Plus preferably 'systemd --user' instance or some fun cron.

Anyone interested?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny