On 4/12/2011 10:55 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
>> If compile/test servers are an issue, can we do for CentOS what we do
>> for distributed Prime number/SETI computation serving?
>
> Not as far as I know, ensuring environ sanity across something of this
> nature would be a massive issue. Not easy to solve, unless the environ
> as a whole is shipped out.
If the process can be scripted into repeatable builds, all you really
need is to return the info needed to repeat the one correct build on
sanitized equipment, discarding the actual artifacts built elsewhere.
But Johnny's postings seem pretty insistent on never releasing the
actual scripts in a form that can be used elsewhere or by anyone outside
the project, so maybe a more productive approach would be some way of
coordinating contributions toward purchasing virtual server time in some
cloud where your secret scripts could assemble build components from
undisclosed places but still do a lot of operations in parallel. That
could have a lower bar than donating whole servers and perhaps it could
be done without the project itself having to handle any money.
Personally, I'd rather run things on my own machines, but so far I don't
see any hope of that happening in a productive way.
--
Les Mikesell
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