| 1 | # 2024-01-11 |
| 2 | |
| 3 | First meeting of the (revamped) infra team. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Participants: delroth, hexa, raitobezarius, vcunat, zimbatm |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ## [zimbatm] Presentation |
| 8 | |
| 9 | - At NixCon, we added new people to the team, but we were not able to give space |
| 10 | to those new people, with this in mind, I would like to dedicate one hour per |
| 11 | week or two weeks where I can unblock the infrastructure matters. |
| 12 | - I don’t know what people are interested in, I believe this is a volunteer |
| 13 | ecosystem and you should work on what you would like to work on. |
| 14 | - We have big challenges in front of us, e.g. the cache situation, with a new |
| 15 | team, maybe we can tackle those bigger challenges. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | ## Round of intros |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Skipped in these edited notes. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | ## [raito] Recommending hexa for infra-core |
| 22 | |
| 23 | - Consensus: yes please. |
| 24 | - [zimbatm] Done. |
| 25 | - delroth/vcunat to assist with onboarding, provision access, etc. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | ## [delroth] Matrix Homeserver situation |
| 28 | |
| 29 | - EMS is dropping legacy plans after 2024-01-17 |
| 30 | - https://github.com/NixOS/infra/issues/325 |
| 31 | - We are getting dropped. |
| 32 | - We need to react but Graham, owner of the EMS account, is not reacting. |
| 33 | - The problem is not the cost but access to the account. |
| 34 | - delroth/hexa are in favor of self-hosting. |
| 35 | - But we need the database dump from EMS. |
| 36 | - hexa to prepare the config for this, delroth can act as backup/fallback. |
| 37 | - Fallback: we can always pay the $1200 (excl. VAT) for renewing the 1 year |
| 38 | plan. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | ## [hexa] Moving NGI out of nixos-org-configurations |
| 41 | |
| 42 | - Goals: unblock ngi0 maintainers, less consumption of our review bandwidth. |
| 43 | - Should we move them to a new repo? |
| 44 | - Either in the nixos GitHub org or the ngi-nix org. |
| 45 | - Action item: let's ask them! |
| 46 | - https://github.com/NixOS/infra/issues/326 |
| 47 | |
| 48 | ## Builders |
| 49 | |
| 50 | - Context: various cost reduction efforts need to happen on the Hydra/ofborg |
| 51 | builders infra. |
| 52 | - There might be the possibility to get Hetzner to sponsor one more machine. |
| 53 | - [delroth] Pretty sure we are not using our build resources efficiently as it |
| 54 | is (queue-runner bottleneck) |
| 55 | - [vcunat] xz compression is the main problem |
| 56 | - [zimbatm] We should properly analyze where the bottlenecks are. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | ## Backups |
| 59 | |
| 60 | - We are not doing proper backups of the NixOS infra. |
| 61 | - There is an rsync.net account where the Hydra database gets backed up to, at |
| 62 | least. |
| 63 | - Julien's vaultwarden PR is currently blocked by this, we're getting backup |
| 64 | storage space from Hetzner (storage boxes). |