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November 2024

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Getting a small Hetzner dedicated server for buildbtw development and testing
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Hey guys, I intend to get a small Hetzner box (most probably AX41-NVMe) for buildbtw development and testing, trying a bunch of things in the capacity of a proof-of-concept. We don't exactly know where we're going with this yet. We need a hardware machine as we need it to be able to do virtualization. Hetzner cloud VMs can't do virtualization. It will be a special gitlab-runner executor. The idea is to fork the libvirt runner and add a bunch of buildbtw-specific stuff to it. It will not be managed by devops. I will give root to people involved in the buildbtw project. Costs will be <€40/month. It will be decommissioned after development. Any thoughts or objections?

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A Mumble server for Arch Linux
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Hello everyone, I would like to suggest we set up a Mumble server for Arch Linux staff. Time and time again, it's been useful for Arch people to come together for a longer time to hack on various projects or to plan stuff like Arch Summit. Often times, people use Jitsi for such things. However, I think Mumble is a more suitable alternative for people hanging out for a longer time as it: - allows you to have multiple channels for dedicated topics and you can see who's currently meeting where - is more stable than Jitsi in my experience - has better desktop integration for muting - has better quality - can more easily be used over slow networks The idea is to use mumble-server, put it on the smallest Hetzner VPS and call it a day. I've been operating Mumble servers for years and it requires maintenance basically never. We cannot connect it to SSO so we'll run it like we run the IRC channels: have a password and ask people to not tell people outside of staff. We'll have a bunch of moderators (not necessarily devops, just whoever wants to do create some channels now and then) that can set up channels and such but apart from that I think we can just run it. Thoughts? Sven

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