Re: [GitLab] Group runners: And why CI is slow in forks

[Walter Vargas <waltervargas linux com>]

Hi Carlos,

Thank you for your concerns regarding the costs associated with CI
infrastructure; the last week I was talking to Emmanuel that I would
like to donate CPU capacity of one of my cloud accounts for the
runners.

Please let me know if we can schedule a quick call this week to discuss that.

Additionally, we can create a "Runners Support Program" to allow
people to contribute with runners, that will require:
  1. An automated mechanism to install the required software.
     -  This can be an UserData script or an AMI with all set that we
could publish to the AWS Market.
  2. Support from the Engagement Team to create a social media strategy, etc.

Warm Regards.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:28 AM Carlos Soriano <csoriano gnome org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In case you missed my treasurer report talk at GUADEC, our annual costs for CI is around $22.000. This is 
> okay since we are lucky to have GitLab Inc. as the main sponsor of that. However, we cannot offload all of 
> our needs on them, even more in the long-term. So we need to 1) find sponsors, 2) make sure we spend money 
> on just GNOME software.
>
> In order to spend money just in GNOME software we restricted the fast runners to the groups GNOME/ and 
> Infrastructure/. The runners in there are AWS and DO in a elastic set up, that means they get spawned 
> dynamically as the load increases and they are quite beefy. Ideally this would be in a wiki page, with the 
> set up and costs explained.
>
> However there is an issue, forks and MR of forks are no part of this, so they get the local machine we have 
> instead of the fast runners.
>
> I was surprised this wasn't mentioned before, but fear not, it's the most upvoted issue upstream right now 
> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23902.
>
> Lately, if you think someone could sponsor part of that money or some machine for the rest of the software 
> not in those groups, please reach to me!
>
> Cheers
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