| 14 May 2024 |
samrose | anyway, I'd love to help and am flexible about how I do it, when it comes to helping test this stuff somehow | 00:13:57 |
samrose | I guess at cirrus that use containers, although it could still be feasible to use their containers to build and test builds I believe | 00:14:24 |
samrose | at cirrus they only offer containers for aarch64-linux I mean | 00:14:43 |
samrose | I don't think github has rolled out their aarch64-linux runners yet other than some beta testing thingy | 00:15:13 |
samrose | cirrus uses yaml or the (imo kinda wack) starlark language. But it's also possible to just break out into using nix/nix run to script these things once nix is installed on the machine anyway of course | 00:17:19 |
samrose | there may be some other ci companies that offer free services to open source projects too, I can look around and see | 00:18:33 |
Qyriad | we aren't allergic to yaml or starlark tbh | 00:21:54 |
samrose | https://circleci.com/open-source/ seems to have credits too. Although I don't know the whole background on these companies, so not meant to be an endorsement of any of them per se but the "free to open source" part sounds cool | 00:25:54 |
samrose | I have used cirrus in the past and at least as a ci service, it worked decently | 00:26:43 |
Qyriad | we would need something that we could integrate into gerrit at minimum, and ideally really into our existing CI | 00:28:17 |
samrose | what is the existing CI based on? | 00:29:22 |
samrose | was it buildbot? | 00:29:45 |
Qyriad | yep | 00:29:55 |
samrose | I had not known about buildbot really before just looking it up now :)
But it looks like it's a nice framework to use in lieu of just running scripts | 00:31:45 |
Lunaphied | Compared to just running custom scripts yeah it's better but it's really not far off | 00:32:06 |
raitobezarius | It's xonsh with a server | 00:33:03 |
raitobezarius | I am not sure I cannot parse if Cirrus CI offer aarch64 Linux builder on demand or on spot or something | 00:34:04 |