[Nix-dev] donating through hydra

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:12:00 +0100, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> Excerpts from Florian Friesdorf's message of Tue Feb 28 05:55:56 +0100 2012:
> > I'm thinking to donate to the nix community by renting a server and
> > setting up hydra on it.
> Writing down my thougts while reading it:
> 
> And then? Do the same as current buildfarm does? Duplicate work by
> building subversion revisions?

Eelco wrote recently, that the current approach reached a limit. Maybe
working with more branches containing fewer changes and distributing the
build load to different hydras could work.

At this point I'm interested in how much work is involved in setting up
and maintaining hydra and what resources hydra currently has which we
drive to a limit.

> Or be a "slave" of the official buildfarm (in which case all users have
> to trust your server as well?)

I'm not sure of the powers of 'nix-store --verify-path', but so far I
was under the (wrong) impression, that nix has methods that do not
require trust into the build farm (provider).

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