On 2022-10-11 02:36:57, Boian Bonev via Dng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 12:36 +1100, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
> > Hi Olaf,
> >
> > I would guess you are aware of git.devuan.org and have your reason(s)
> > for having opted for other choices, but if not, "git.devuan.org" is
> > (also) an alternative as a publicly available software repository.
>
> That would be perfect for the scripts and files used to build the
> images.
>
> > Though I'm not sure it (a git store web gui) is a good place for
> > publishing releases of anything given it's page rendering
> > limitations, and perhaps you would want something different for that.
>
> I do not understand the process of building Docker images at all. But
> it would be best for the downloadable product to be mirrored - it
> shouldn't be a problem to run the image build process on the Devuan's
> infra, but distributing them is best done via the mirror network. To
> explain the reasons - bandwidth on the infra is limited. It is enough
> for timely distribution to the mirrors, but not for direct user
> downloads, especially in case the user base grows.

Olaf mentioned "30GiB" which might be a bit much for additional storage
for some mirrors.

> From Olaf's post, I get that the biggest problem is the space
> requirement. Olaf, is there something else, that I miss? Is there
> something special about hosting a Docker repo?
>
> With best regards,
> b.
>
>
> > regards,
> >
> > Ralph.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 04:02:21PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Some five years ago I started a little project on GitLab.com to
> > > build
> > > Devuan Docker images.  Images were built and pushed to the
> > > project's
> > > registry by CI/CD on a monthly schedule.  Until 2021-07-03, that
> > > is,
> > > when a change to GitLab's shared runners broke the build.
> > >
> > > The project is at https://gitlab.com/paddy-hack/devuan.
> > >
> > > There were regular images for all of jessie, ascii, beowulf,
> > > chimaera
> > > and ceres as well as slim, builder and helper variants.  Together
> > > they
> > > gobbled up some 30GiB in disk space in my personal project space.
> > >
> > > Now GitLab.com is making changes to their Free Tier offering, which
> > > is
> > > what I'm using, and one of those is a 5GiB storage limit on
> > > personal
> > > (and other top-level) namespaces.  This change will come into
> > > effect on
> > > or after 2022-10-19.  Nothing will be removed but one will not be
> > > able
> > > to write any new data past that cap.  That is, as soon as the limit
> > > is
> > > enforced I can no longer use my personal GitLab.com namespace.
> > >
> > > That sucks!
> > >
> > > I could purchase additional 10GiB storage chunks at USD60/year but
> > > if I
> > > had that kind of money to burn, I think donating it to Devuan would
> > > be a
> > > much better investment.  I could also apply for an Open Source
> > > Program
> > > (and re-apply every year) to try and get an Ultimate license which
> > > comes
> > > with 250GB of storage (and 500GB transfer/month).  However, I think
> > > it
> > > might be a better idea to move the images to the Devuan project and
> > > its
> > > infrastructure.
> > >
> > > That is, if they are still wanted/needed in the first place.  If
> > > so, I
> > > am willing to help with any migration and volunteer for their
> > > continued
> > > maintenance.  I guess adding daedalus and excalibur would be one of
> > > the
> > > first things to do after migrating.  A policy regarding the keeping
> > > of
> > > historic builds might also need some discussion.
> > >
> > > # Or maybe Devuan could be added to the Docker Official Images...
> > >
> > > Anyway, I need to do something about my GitLab.com storage
> > > consumption
> > > (and not only for the devuan images!) soonish so I've moved all the
> > > images that were on GitLab.com to a localhost registry just in
> > > case.
> > > Only a few of these images are still available via GitLab.com, for
> > > the
> > > time being, and mostly not to break the daily dyne/devuan builds ;-
> > > )
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > > --
> > > Olaf Meeuwissen
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