For sure, is there any way we can help over on the Infra side? I noticed there was no SIG for it and assumed you had it covered… If not, myself and @coded host all of our own stuff using Nix, we’d be happy to lend a hand
For example, could we help with setting up Matrix? We host our own server already so we’re familiar with this
This is something I need to work out. I want to say “an emphatic YES, thank you” though right now it may get a bit hard to manage lots of separate machines owned by separate people. The cost is also something to be concerned with.
I think I would like to wait until tomorrow at least to establish a Matrix server. We will likely want to get a few things done first:
Start adding people to the git-host’s org
Fork nixpkgs / nix
Create an infra repo
Move my config for this server into that repository
Collaborate with others to get deployment going without too many bottlenecks
This makes sense, let me know when you get the infra repo going, or a SIG or a channel. Myself and @coded would love to lend expertise wherever possible!
Just saw this cool new software this morning for an automated review bot for nixpkgs, perhaps we could make use of it. Though it might need some changes to work with our forge.
I’m very time, energy, and brain-power poor these days, but I still like to tinker with infrastructure stuff, though I’m probably getting a bit out of date. Realistically it would be unfair of me to commit to real maintainership/admin, but I’d love to help troubleshoot and kick ideas around when I’m able.
There was some fedi discussion about possible experimental peer-to-peer binary cache solutions. Again there’s probably a limit to what I can do, but I have access to a couple of self-hosted mini-servers in different locations with a little bit of bandwidth and storage. I’d be happy to spin up some lightweight experimental containers to help with any proof-of-concept stage, even if those servers would be of pretty limited use as part of a full-scale public deployment.
@jakehamilton I wonder if some more people could have invite permission over on the GitHub org - it seems to me that GitHub Organization Membership is likely to become a bottleneck otherwise. Perhaps some people from different timezones if we know them?
I agree, part of extending those responsibilities is expanding ownership of the org. Right now I’m not sure who would fit that role particularly well. Happy to hear from anyone who feels they would be able to help out.