[companion-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Open Source software and OpenSolaris. What is the deal?

[Keith Bierman]

On May 10, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:

>
> jek3> One concept discussed was to have a machine farm under  
> OpenSolaris
> jek3> auspicies.  Probably not as simple as it sounds (to prevent
> jek3> abuse), but certainly possible.
>
> Well, we need a build farm anyway, so that external committers can  
> build
> and test on both x86 and SPARC prior to putback.

If this farm-to-be also hosted various other OS's, this farm might be  
viewed by various different communities as a resource to leverage,  
rather than a special "task" for supporting Solaris.

Sure, every OSS developer has a machine or two. But how many of them  
have a diverse set of processors and OS's?

I presume that virtually any farm has excess cycles, so being able to  
host and run test suites on a best effort basis shouldn't be terribly  
pricey (other than the extra costs of having "flash" images of  
various OS's loaded from time to time).


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