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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:38:08 -0400
Subject: Re: Hadoop build machine donations?
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A couple of questions for Nigel and Andrew:

1. What do you mean by "non-single-purpose machines" ? (I guess, machines
they can use for non-Hadoop projects as well ?)

2. Do these machines have to be physical boxes or virtual machines be okay
too ? (sudo on virtual machines would be easier to sell than on physical
boxes.)

3. What's the process for donations ?

- milind

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Milind Bhandarkar
Greenplum Labs,
EMC


On 8/2/11 8:07 AM, "Andrew Bayer" <andrew.bayer@gmail.com> wrote:

>FWIW, the ASF Infra guys aren't that keen on more machines they won't have
>physical control of. There may be some wiggle room on that, but they'll
>definitely need sudo and they would much prefer non-single-purpose
>machines.
>Just a heads up from my talks with Infra lately.
>
>A.
>
>On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Nigel Daley <ndaley@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Given the Hadoop build machines have been offline for a few day, this
>>would
>> be a good time to see if other companies can donate **access**  to some
>> build hardware to diversify our donors.  Currently there are roughly 30
>> machines donated by Yahoo!
>>
>> Ideally the hardware is:
>> * hosted and OS managed by the donor,
>> * publicly addressable on the internet,
>> * running Ubuntu or CentOS, and
>> * sudo access can be given to Apache's Jenkins admins so they can create
>> accounts for committers as needed.
>>
>> Anyone?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nige
>>