I can definitely donate the facilities if not the talent. I have a symmetrical fiber connection and a static ip. I also have battery backup. I’m in the final weeks of making the building legal and I haven’t configured the final network set-up for the building. I was going to set-up a vlan on my hp procurve switch. I’m still shopping for a router to run OPNsense I think.
I have been a mac sysadmin long time. happy to accommodate. Ben > On May 19, 2021, at 11:01 AM, David Gilman <davidgilm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Three distributed machines is a great goal, I agree with you, but maybe the > right mindset here is to do the best with what we've got. If we have three or > more trusted volunteers and the CI can support it let's do it, if we have > fewer, we'll live with it. > > On Wed, May 19, 2021, 8:57 AM Bjarne D Mathiesen <macint...@mathiesen.info > <mailto:macint...@mathiesen.info>> wrote: > > > Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > I personally am not comfortable adding other build machines to our buildbot > > system that I do not control. When I control the machines, I know what is > > installed on them and that they are set up correctly. Having build machines > > located outside of my local network also poses additional challenges, as > > I've learned by having our Apple Silicon build machine outside of my > > network, challenges which I would prefer to minimize, not increase. > > > > We currently use one build machine per OS version / arch, and have the > > hardware needed to do that. Adding more hardware such that we have more > > than one build machine per OS version / arch is not something our buildbot > > system was ever designed to accommodate, and would introduce problems. > > So we are more-or-less single-point-of-failure regarding the buildbots > !? Personally, I'ld deem it advisable to have at least 3 complete > systems geographically dispersed. > > > > > Using Linux and commodity hardware is not applicable because it the macOS > > EULA only permits running macOS on Apple hardware, as we currently do. > > So it's not the proposed software stack that's the problem, but the > hardware stack. Then how about an old 2010/12 MacPro with all the bells > and whistles ? I've been able to boot a 2010 MacPro w/ 256GB RAM under > Ubuntu without any problems. > > -- > Bjarne D Mathiesen > Korsør ; Danmark ; Europa > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > denne besked er skrevet i et totalt M$-frit miljø > OpenCore + macOS 10.15.7 Catalina > MacPro 2010 ; 2 x 3,46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon ; 256 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC > ATI Radeon RX 590 8 GB
