<worldofpeace>
jtojnar: have you had good experiences with meson as a project being responsive?
<gchristensen>
so we're potentially going to be coming in to some significant compute power. is there a way beyond the obvious "Stick it in hydra!" option to help support the community?
<gchristensen>
if it comes to pass, it'll be >100 nodes of (4 x 2.4ghz cores, ~8GB RAM, no hard drive). I think this could have interesting applications beyond hydra. I'd love to hear some ideas.
<samueldr>
a couple aside for PR testing / building docs on change on PRs?
<gchristensen>
that is a very cool idea
<globin>
and maybe something like the aarch64 community box
<globin>
i guess samueldr was refering to ofborg?
<samueldr>
yes
<gchristensen>
that would also be great
<samueldr>
though the amount of memory and no storage makes it... weird for the "community machine" use case
<samueldr>
though it might be me
<gchristensen>
yes, that is definitely a big part of it. it'll require some creativity to think about use cases
<samueldr>
wondering about some kind of "queue an eval" service
<samueldr>
how it can be structured to be useful
<samueldr>
especially considering the fact there won't be storage
<gchristensen>
by an eval do you mean an eval-and-build?
<globin>
somehow distributing the builds/community users would be necessary
<samueldr>
well, queue an eval/build
<samueldr>
yes gchristensen :)
<gchristensen>
I have 50% of the source to a project I called "magic bb" which this is a fairly perfect use case for, but I haven't had the time to make actually useful: a remote server you setup as a builder and it'd auto-scale backends to get you as many cores of whatveer architecture you needed.
<gchristensen>
but maybe could ditch a ton of the complexity: submit a key, it'll get you a remote builder for some hours. for working on nixpkgs stuff.
<jtojnar>
worldofpeace: as I see it (I might be projecting something that is not there), they have some sort of vision and try to follow it
<jtojnar>
they are pretty responsive to requests that are in line with the vision
<jtojnar>
they also seem to be receptive to good arguments when they process them, but I feel like they are slightly overwhelmed, as it sometimes takes many passes before the misunderstandings are cleared
<jtojnar>
maybe Ericson2314 can also comment, as he is trying to make cross-compilation in Meson sane
<worldofpeace>
jtojnar: I think I'd have to agree on all those points. I think most of the interaction I've seen goes like that, and I think part of that behavior is the effects of being overwhelmed.
<worldofpeace>
Guess best way to deal with things is to be really contructed/considerate and patient. I think direct contributions to move that along can have the same effect sometimes (++ more passes)