On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 3:53 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 8:40 AM Krisztián Szűcs
> <szucs.kriszt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:14 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > hi Ganesh,
> > >
> > > Thanks for writing.
> > >
> > > I've been working on setting up Buildkite (BK) as a way for third
> > > parties for attach machines to run builds on, with a free organization
> > > at
> > >
> > > https://buildkite.com/apache-arrow
> > >
> > > Configuring a new machine to accept builds is very easy [1] and takes
> > > less than 60 seconds on Linux or macOS (though maybe a bit more work
> > > on Windows). Currently I've attached 6 machines:
> > >
> > > * 2 CUDA-capable Linux x86
> > > * 3 armhf machines (not super high-powered), 1 CUDA-capable
> > > * 1 macOS
> > >
> > > We're still waiting on ASF Infra to twiddle some bits so that builds
> > > triggered in BK can report commit statuses on GitHub [2]
> > >
> > > It's possible we can use self-hosted GitHub Actions (GHA) for this
> > > also but the workflow for new machines to be contributed needs to be
> > > proven out.
> > I've already tried it out, and setting up self-hosted github runners is
> > just as
> > easy as with buildkite, drawbacks:
>
> I don't mean to be argumentative, but I don't see how this can be true
> if we don't have access to the "Settings" tab on GitHub
On a fork where I have access for that tab.
>
> https://help.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/adding-self-hosted-runners
>
> > - I'm unsure how would the tagging selection work in practice [1]
> > - We won't have access to the runners dashboard in lack of admin rights
> > for the apache/arrow repository - so we need to test out the workflow.
> >
> > I've created an INFRA ticket to get some information and to track it:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-19875
> >
> > [1]
> > https://help.github.com/en/actions/configuring-and-managing-workflows/configuring-a-workflow#using-a-self-hosted-runner
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Wes
> > >
> > > [1]:
> > > https://github.com/ursa-labs/dev-tools/blob/master/buildkite/debian_agent_bootstrap.sh
> > > [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-19217
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 3:38 PM Ganesh Raju <ganesh.r...@linaro.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I am following up on the discussion from here
> > > > <https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/6253>, with interest to have
> > > > dedicated arm hardware for CI setup. We can surely help with that if we
> > > > get
> > > > a go-ahead from the project.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Ganesh
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > IRC: ganeshraju@#linaro on irc.freenode.ne <http://irc.freenode.net/>t