| 17 Aug 2023 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | cole-h: I guess, how much of your paid time is a better question | 23:03:53 |
cole-h | I don't have a set maximum (or minimum), but I can spend my time on that kind of stuff with relatively little hassle | 23:06:31 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | Oh and who actually pays for all those machines? The NixOS Foundation? | 23:06:32 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | Sorry for bombarding you with questions :P | 23:07:17 |
cole-h | The Linux machines are sponsored by Equinix Metal, the Macs are a mix of Foundation hardware hosted by DetSys and some machines from Macstadium | 23:07:38 |
cole-h | (Some of the Hydra Macs are from Hetzner, but that's outside my purview :P) | 23:08:06 |
Lily Foster | In reply to @cole-h:matrix.org The Linux machines are sponsored by Equinix Metal, the Macs are a mix of Foundation hardware hosted by DetSys and some machines from Macstadium (is macstadium sponsoring those or is Foundation paying?) | 23:08:21 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | In reply to @cole-h:matrix.org The Linux machines are sponsored by Equinix Metal, the Macs are a mix of Foundation hardware hosted by DetSys and some machines from Macstadium I see, thanks! | 23:08:30 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | It's interesting how we have 2 CI's for Nixpkgs but both of them suck lol | 23:08:57 |
cole-h | IIRC, sponsored, but it's been a while since we set those up so I'm a little fuzzy on the details :P | 23:08:59 |
cole-h | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org It's interesting how we have 2 CI's for Nixpkgs but both of them suck lol CI is hard 😠| 23:09:11 |
Lily Foster | (I mean if someone payed me full-time I'd do a lot of work on the nixpkgs CI story 👀) | 23:09:45 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | I think it's mainly that we lack the funding to work on CI | 23:09:53 |
Lily Foster | Funding and I do feel we don't have the dedicated developer bandwidth (which could certainly be solvable, but is I feel a current problem) | 23:10:38 |
Lily Foster | (funding could also of course provide that bandwidth too) | 23:10:59 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | Fyi I can spend about 50% of my week on Nix ecosystem stuff as I see fit | 23:11:27 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | Currently the focus is RFC 140, but I'll have to decide what to focus on after that | 23:11:54 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | (I'll take suggestions) | 23:12:36 |
Lily Foster | In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org (I'll take suggestions) (I mean if you're taking suggestions in the OfBorg room...) | 23:12:54 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | Hehe | 23:13:19 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | I'm slowly thinking that CI is the most important thing to focus on | 23:13:53 |
Lily Foster | I would be interested in at least providing input on that, but my spare time outside of $dayjob (where I bang my head against windows for hours on end...) is admittedly limited so idk how involved I can be | 23:14:37 |
cole-h | Maybe you could look at why Nixpkgs eval is so slow now 😠| 23:15:02 |
Lily Foster | (apologies to be inserting myself into this convo... I just have an interest in CI stuff) | 23:15:04 |
Lily Foster | In reply to @cole-h:matrix.org Maybe you could look at why Nixpkgs eval is so slow now 😠I second this 😠| 23:15:16 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | More context? | 23:15:25 |
cole-h | (upwards of 10m per outpaths.nix check...) | 23:15:26 |
cole-h | (last year it was around 5m) | 23:15:35 |
Lily Foster | In reply to @cole-h:matrix.org (upwards of 10m per outpaths.nix check...) (and like 64G of memory!) | 23:15:40 |
@infinisil:matrix.org | In reply to @lily:lily.flowers (apologies to be inserting myself into this convo... I just have an interest in CI stuff) No problem at all! | 23:15:40 |