Re: Salsa CI overload

On 05-09-2025 02:37, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hi Denis,
> 
>>>> I feel like making people wait around for CI to run isn't a great use
>>>> of our collective time.
>>>
>>> +1 to more Salsa CI runner resources.
>>
>> Is there a way for companies or institutes to contribute by supplying
>> compute cycles from their clusters or data centres? 
> 
> Do you represent and organization willing to donate capacity?

Maybe :-)
> 
> Some potential donors have expressed their willingness to contribute
> resources tickets at https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support, see e.g.
> https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/-/issues/301, but based on what
> I have understood from Salsa Admins is that it is easier for them to
> simply expand the existing fleet at Google Cloud than to support hosts
> across multiple cloud providers / datacenters.


Seeing that exclusive root access is a demand for donating runners, that 
may be a complicating issue. And if the Salsa admins have to spend more 
effort to get additional runners that are not from the Google Cloud I 
understand that this is, at least at the moment, not worth pursuing.

Maybe if some future enhancement would make it very easy to add and 
manage runners from a broader range of providers, we could discuss this 
again. But I do not know how difficult that would be.