Hi All, I now have my 2 volunteers.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 10:26 AM Gavin McDonald <gmcdon...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Infra would like to hand off the adding/deleting of various JDKs within > our CI systems. This is mainly for Jenkins and Buildbot. > > We provide for our projects many different versions of Java provided by > many different vendors. Those include IBM, Oracle, OpenJDK and > AdoptOpenJDK; > and are installed on all our nodes/agents/runners on both Ubuntu and > Windows. > > We obtain and repackage all JDKs as deb packages or zips into our Bintray > Org > ready for being pulled in via our Puppet configurations. (We repackage so > that we > can install into custom paths on the OS.) > > We also have a couple of scripts for making the download,repackage and > upload to > Bintray almost 100% automated. The final steps are to then create a PR > against > our Github repository for approval and merging. Once merged, our > Documentation > must also be updated with the newer versions or deletion of old versions. > > Credentials for the Bintray API will be provided so the scripts can work. > No access is > needed to the nodes themselves. Access to Infra SVN where our scripts live > will also > be granted. Basically, you will be added to our infrastructure ldap group > if you are not > already there. Write access to INFRA cwiki where pages need updating will > also be > taken care of. > > Ideally, one or two people would be able to take on this role with the > intention of doing > it for an extended period of time. Im looking at least a year I guess, at > which time the > volunteers could either keep going with it or pass it on. Life happens; > and so I wont > hold anyone to a specific time, just nice to know it is being taken care > of. > > The same scripts are also made for updating Apache Ant and Apache Maven as > newer > versions come out, so optionally the volunteer(s) could also take care of > those. > > If you are interested, *please email me directly only*, let's not flood > these mailing lists > with replies, thank you. I'll pick one or two volunteers after a week or > so. > > Thanks for reading this far, that could mean you are interested right! > > > -- > > *Gavin McDonald* > Systems Administrator > ASF Infrastructure Team > -- *Gavin McDonald* Systems Administrator ASF Infrastructure Team
