Re: [gentoo-project] Looking for ways the Foundation can accomplish its mission.

[Matthew Thode]

On 18-09-06 14:35:18, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 2:03 PM Yury German <blueknight@g.o> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > >> One idea I had infra-wise was to expand the idea of our devspace.
> > >> Increase the footprint of our virtualizatoin infra and (on request) give
> > >> devs a VM for dev work.  Possibly even do some arm64 or ppc64 work there
> > >> too.  Beyond that, running a binhost may be an idea, get people
> > >> bootstrapped faster.
> > >>
> > >> I do agree with K_F in that targeting existing confrences would be nice.
> > >> I think the two we'd have the most luck in would be fosdem scale.
> > >>
> > >> A bug bounty program sounds neat, we could take input on bugs to target
> > >> from council I think.  (I personally would like to work on make gentoo
> > >> better support openstack-ansible :D).
> > >>
> > >
> > > It would be nice to also have an official way to quickly start off full
> > > up-to-date system images, possibly in multiple variants.
> >
> >
> > So I have been running an unofficial binhost server for a while until my
> > provider had problems.
> > It helps a lot to have it especially for architectures that are not
> > processor front loaded (arm v6 and v7 / arm64).
> >
> > What prevents us from running an Official binhost? Do we really need
> > Foundation approval (nothing against Foundation).
> > It would just be forming an official project would’t it?
> >
>
> I suspect there are some technical challenges (its similar to distfiles
> hosting in terms of proving the binpkgs are good, requiring signed metadata
> so clients can verify and so on.) From the Foundation PoV no approval is
> required to run a binhost; just people to set it up and to submit a funding
> request.
>
> -A
>

Yep, this would just be funding for the build hosts and the like.

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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)