Internal hosting for Jenkins for short-term [RFC]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/19/2012 12:12 PM, Mike Burns wrote: So we're a bit stuck in a circle, because our current hosting for Jenkins is sub-par due to AIUI EC2 not being the best environment for continuous integration testing. I'd like to bring more on-par resources from Red Hat, but so far the ones we have gotten access to live inside of the private network. I don't yet see anything becoming available from Red Hat for external usage until after June 2012. I wouldn't be surprised if that situation were similar with other people and their supporting organizations or other private hosting situation. External hosting is sometimes more precious than internal labs. I was wondering if it is worth it for the short-term to do CI runs on internal networks and publish just the results externally? Functionally this is the same for some people, but for anyone who wants to help with Infrastructure, it's a closed door. (There may be other considerations to having Jenkins internally that I'm not aware of.) But it might be worth doing for a short period - six months? - to get us what we need on the development side. Itamar reports to me that performance with the EC2 hosts is 3x slower than what they get in their lab. That's a lot of wasted CI time. Of course, Infrastructure supporting that idea means that if anyone has private machines they want to use as Jenkins hosts, we'd want to hook them up with the same situation (somehow.) Ideally, we'll get more hosts provided by community members and supporters, but currently we don't have that. I would want to set a target end-date to return Jenkins et al to external-only hosting so the Infrastructure team can be a full participant. My original goal in setting up Infrastructure as fully open was based on my experience in other projects, but those are already established projects with donated hosting by many providers and none of them started out with that much external hosting. Realistically, this may be something we need to work toward. What do all of you think? BTW, if anyone knows KVM using hosting providers who want to support oVirt development, getting us physical hosts and virtual machines would be a *great* way to help. We can talk with the Board about adding them to the sponsors page. - - Karsten - -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Architect team: Red Hat Community Architecture & Leadership uri: http://communityleadershipteam.org http://TheOpenSourceWay.org gpg: AD0E0C41