Re: Amazon AWS credits for Debian QA work; help needed!

2011-11-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 06:56:29PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I have been working on using Debian-Installer to prepare super-clean machine > images for Amazon-compatible clouds, but unfortunately with not so much > success. Hi Charles, this is very interesting, thanks for working on it. We

Re: Amazon AWS credits for Debian QA work; help needed!

2011-11-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/11/11 at 07:29 -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 08:29:55AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Email archive created ; I've also bounced there all the emails exchanged > > with my Amazon contact. > > Great, thanks a lot. > > Can you please share the details of where t

Re: Amazon AWS credits for Debian QA work; help needed!

2011-11-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/11/11 at 18:56 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:11:28AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > > > On 23/10/11 at 14:29 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > At this point, I'm fairly confident that we will get sponsored by Amazon > > > to be able to run those tests on the

Re: Amazon AWS credits for Debian QA work; help needed!

2011-11-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:11:28AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > On 23/10/11 at 14:29 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > At this point, I'm fairly confident that we will get sponsored by Amazon > > to be able to run those tests on the AWS Cloud. I don't have the exact > > amount yet, but it's

Re: Amazon AWS credits for Debian QA work; help needed!

2011-11-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/11/11 at 08:20 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > Regarding the account set-up on Amazon AWS, I propose to use a > > > cl...@qa.debian.org email alias, so that I'm out of the critical path > > > (bus factor, etc). > > > > Full ACK. Please request also a mail archive for it readable to the >

Re: Amazon AWS credits for Debian QA work; help needed!

2011-11-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 31/10/11 at 16:51 -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ Michael: look for "SPI" in the text; topic: do we have a Debian/SPI > credit card we could use? ] > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:11:28AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I can now confirm that we were awarded $10,000 from Amazon, to use o

Re: Amazon AWS credits for Debian QA work; help needed!

2011-10-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Michael: look for "SPI" in the text; topic: do we have a Debian/SPI credit card we could use? ] On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:11:28AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I can now confirm that we were awarded $10,000 from Amazon, to use on > AWS. (Many thanks to everyone who made it possible!) Great!

Re: Amazon AWS credits for Debian QA work; help needed!

2011-10-31 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 23/10/11 at 14:29 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > At this point, I'm fairly confident that we will get sponsored by Amazon > to be able to run those tests on the AWS Cloud. I don't have the exact > amount yet, but it's likely that we get enough credits to run ~60 full > archive rebuilds. So

Re: Amazon AWS credits for Debian QA work; help needed!

2011-10-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/10/11 at 09:04 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > For instance, given we're generalizing the code, it'd be nice to have it > not too much tied to Amazon-specific technologies. 60 full rebuilds are > quite a bit, but won't last forever and I'd oppose betting on the fact > that Amazon will be k

Re: Amazon AWS credits for Debian QA work; help needed!

2011-10-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 02:29:31PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I've been willing to move my archive rebuilds work outside Grid'5000 for > a while, since it would allow others to participate in that work as > well. > > At this point, I'm fairly confident that we will get sponsored by Amazon > to

Amazon AWS credits for Debian QA work; help needed!

2011-10-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I've been willing to move my archive rebuilds work outside Grid'5000 for a while, since it would allow others to participate in that work as well. At this point, I'm fairly confident that we will get sponsored by Amazon to be able to run those tests on the AWS Cloud. I don't have the exact am