On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:47:35 -0400 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Seems like a way to improve this would be better documentation and a > DIY infra testing platform. > > First, document how to prepare a service for infra hosting. Maybe > provide an example service. > > Second, publish a tarball of a container/chroot that basically > simulates an infra host for testing purposes. Provide instructions on > how to configure/run it. Make it easy - edit this config file to > point to your repo, put the name of your service/host here, etc. > > Anybody developing a service could then just follow the instructions > and then test out their service in a similar environment to what infra > uses. Nobody needs to be trusted with any credentials. Nobody needs > access to any special repos. They can run the container on their own > host, and point it at their favorite git repo hosting service. > > Once it is working all they need to do is give the link to their > repo/etc to infra. Infra can then fork it and host it. The > maintainer can submit pull requests as needed to infra. I'm in favour of all of this.
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