Can I help with Infrastruture?

[minion]

This makes sense, let me know when you get the infra repo going, or a SIG or a channel. Myself and @coded would love to lend expertise wherever possible!

[jakehamilton]

Awesome will do, thank you both so much!!!

[Axel]

Aye! Count me in too!
I love tinkering with infra.

[dfh]

Another raised hand from for infra.
Been doing my own personal since forever + infrastructure security & applied cryptography professionally

[goorzhel]

I can help with server/OS maintenance (and cloud/Kubernetes admin if needed).

[isabel]

Just saw this cool new software this morning for an automated review bot for nixpkgs, perhaps we could make use of it. Though it might need some changes to work with our forge.

GitHub - IogaMaster/warden: A self hostable nixpkgs review bot

[isabel]

Those coming here to read about infra should also go checkout

Updating automatically aka. running `nixpkgs-update`

Hi! [ Not sure if core is definitely the best category here, but I thought I just put it here for now. ] Mostly as it says in the title. nixpkgs-update is a tool which creates package update PRs automatically if the package can be mechanically updated & builds successfully. Since this takes a load of work of the maintainers hand, esp. core maintainers and committers, this should be an important topic for us too. At least for the set of core packages, I could provide infrastructure for runnin…

[srtcd424]

I’m very time, energy, and brain-power poor these days, but I still like to tinker with infrastructure stuff, though I’m probably getting a bit out of date. Realistically it would be unfair of me to commit to real maintainership/admin, but I’d love to help troubleshoot and kick ideas around when I’m able.

There was some fedi discussion about possible experimental peer-to-peer binary cache solutions. Again there’s probably a limit to what I can do, but I have access to a couple of self-hosted mini-servers in different locations with a little bit of bandwidth and storage. I’d be happy to spin up some lightweight experimental containers to help with any proof-of-concept stage, even if those servers would be of pretty limited use as part of a full-scale public deployment.

[marshmallow]

@jakehamilton perhaps offtopic, but it would be awesome if the source for aux.computer was placed on the github org!

[jakehamilton]

Yes that’s the plan! Doing some irl things at the moment so I won’t get to it until later.

[minion]

@jakehamilton I wonder if some more people could have invite permission over on the GitHub org - it seems to me that GitHub Organization Membership is likely to become a bottleneck otherwise. Perhaps some people from different timezones if we know them?

[jakehamilton]

I agree, part of extending those responsibilities is expanding ownership of the org. Right now I’m not sure who would fit that role particularly well. Happy to hear from anyone who feels they would be able to help out.

[minion]

I’ll happily nominate myself, I’m in UTC currently and will have to go to bed soon though, so may not be enough if it becomes a bottleneck tonight.

[srxl]

I’m willing to lend a hand and cover from AEST (GMT+10), if needed.

[coded]

Can lend a hand from EST (UTC-4) here as well

[Axel]

I can lend a hand too. UTC +5:30 here.

[jakehamilton]

I’ve added @minion, @srxl, @coded, and @Axel as fellow owners of the GitHub repository. Thank you for helping with the clerical work!

[yulian]

If we need more hands. I can help too. UTC -7 until October (moving to Denmark)

I’m a Staff DevOps Engineer professionally, so I can help with any automation, infra stuff, or backend code.

[isabel]

Everyone who has made a post in GitHub Organization Membership - #63 by isabel has been invited to the infra committee.

[danderson]

I can help with infra and clerical work also. Infrastructure silliness is my day job, and I’ve also constructed little nix-based Rube Goldberg machines. I don’t have a clear idea of what open items there are, or if infra is already oversubscribed, but if I can help, I’m happy to.