Re: OSUOSL in trouble

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 11:43:28AM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2025, 01:11 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > From LWN
> >
> > > Lance Albertson writes that the Oregon State University Open Source Lab,
> > the home of many prominent free-software projects over the years, has run
> > into financial trouble:
> > >
> > > I am writing to inform you about a critical and time-sensitive situation
> > facing the Open Source Lab. Over the past several years, we have been
> > operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate donations. While OSU's
> > College of Engineering (CoE) has generously filled this gap, recent changes
> > in university funding have led to a significant reduction in CoE's budget.
> > As a result, our current funding model is no longer sustainable and CoE
> > needs to find ways to cut programs.
> > > Earlier this week, I was informed that unless we secure $250,000 in
> > committed funds, the OSL will be forced to shut down later this year.
> >
> > I propose migrating the two VMs we have to Digital Ocean and scrapping the
> > DO Kubernetes cluster. However that means we need to move CI to Amazon in
> > the next 1-2 months, before the Microsoft credits expire.
> >
> 
> I agree. I will also apply for the next round of Amazon funding.
> 
> Paolo, please let me know how I can help with migrating VMs or setting up a
> CI Kubernetes cluster on Amazon.

Please ensure the any new CI machines for gitlab have persistent cache
enabled. Our functional test jobs are still downloading images on every
run due to lack of configured cache, which makes them unreliable when
sites have transient outages, as well as making jobs slower.

With regards,
Daniel
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