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-...
Also fastly provides free CDN services to some Open Source projects:
https://www.fastly.com/open-source?utm_medium=social&utm_source=t.co&...
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
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