[Scummvm-devel] New server donated to ScummVM

[Willem Jan Palenstijn]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 10:27:31AM +0100, Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
> I recently got contacted by Florian Schicker from easyname.com, who
> appeared to be a devoted fans of ScummVM.
> 
> Being a hosting service, they would like to give their thanks in for of
> (ta-da):
> 
>    - Intel 6-core CPU
>    - 16 GB of RAM
>    - 2x 146gb SAS in RAID1
>    - Debian jessy
>    - SSH access to all of that
> 
> This goes as token of appreciation, no costs involved.
> 
> Of course, I think it would be nice to give a link back to them from our
> front page, in form of a logo and a news post.

Wow, that is great! When we figure out what exactly we're going to use it
for, a news post / logo sounds very appropriate.



> I am thinking of moving part of our operations there, that is buildbot,
> which currently lives on a VM donated by qvist, but is struggling
> especially at full recompiles.

Buildbot also supports multiple builders, so we could even spread the load
around.

If we have sufficient capacity, it would be nice to explore the possibility of
building pull requests _before_ merging them too, I think.


> Potentially we could consider moving our main site to the machine,
> especially in the light of recently frequent SF.net outages.

That's definitely worth considering. As you say, SF is not very stable at the
moment...


-Willem Jan