Renting a "rebuild" control server?

[Paul Spooren]

Hello, 

> Definitely +1 for hosting the control part on OpenWrt infra.  The cost is
> not an issue, 20€ / month is cheap.

I started to rent a server and it works fine as a “control” machine.

> There has been some discussion about also renting servers for the rebuild
> itself (what you call workers).  However, can you clarify whether you plan
> to reuse our existing buildbot workers, or if these are completely
> separate kind of workers?  If so, what are the specs?  How many workers
> are we talking about?

Right now I’m using two idle servers with about 100 CPU cores, until that changes I’d avoid renting anything ourself. I want to push OpenWrt (snapshots) to 100%, after that I’d crank down the interval to ~weekly builds so a smaller CPU count can handle it.

> FYI we discussed this during our infra meeting today [1] (well, it was
> just me and Ansuel).

Thanks a lot for your commitment, I’ll be at the next meeting!

Another thing, https://rebuilder-01.infra.openwrt.org/ is running fine but I’d like to add an extra DNS name like “reproducible.openwrt.org <http://reproducible.openwrt.org/>”, any objections?

Best,
Paul