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