On 02/27/2020 05:00 PM, Tom Stellard wrote: > On 02/27/2020 01:27 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> You might have read the short take in the X.org board meeting minutes >> already, here's the long version. >> >> The good news: gitlab.fd.o has become very popular with our >> communities, and is used extensively. This especially includes all the >> CI integration. Modern development process and tooling, yay! >> >> The bad news: The cost in growth has also been tremendous, and it's >> breaking our bank account. With reasonable estimates for continued >> growth we're expecting hosting expenses totalling 75k USD this year, >> and 90k USD next year. With the current sponsors we've set up we can't >> sustain that. We estimate that hosting expenses for gitlab.fd.o >> without any of the CI features enabled would total 30k USD, which is >> within X.org's ability to support through various sponsorships, mostly >> through XDC. >> > > Have you looked into applying for free credits from amazon: > > https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-promotional-credits-open-source-projects/ > Also fastly provides free CDN services to some Open Source projects: https://www.fastly.com/open-source?utm_medium=social&utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=FY17Q4_WebPage_OpenSource It might also be worth looking into if the main costs are coming from data transfers. -Tom > -Tom > >> Note that X.org does no longer sponsor any CI runners themselves, >> we've stopped that. The huge additional expenses are all just in >> storing and serving build artifacts and images to outside CI runners >> sponsored by various companies. A related topic is that with the >> growth in fd.o it's becoming infeasible to maintain it all on >> volunteer admin time. X.org is therefore also looking for admin >> sponsorship, at least medium term. >> >> Assuming that we want cash flow reserves for one year of gitlab.fd.o >> (without CI support) and a trimmed XDC and assuming no sponsor payment >> meanwhile, we'd have to cut CI services somewhere between May and June >> this year. The board is of course working on acquiring sponsors, but >> filling a shortfall of this magnitude is neither easy nor quick work, >> and we therefore decided to give an early warning as soon as possible. >> Any help in finding sponsors for fd.o is very much appreciated. >> >> Thanks, Daniel >> > > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
