Re: status of (future of) Guix QA

[Jing Luo]

On 2023-12-27 05:41, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Hi Luo Jing,
>
> On Tue, Dec 26 2023, Jing Luo wrote:
>
> > Here is a reminder that I offered my computing resources
>
> Unless folks here know you already, it might be helpful to tell the 
> list
> more about what you do with that shiny and powerful equipment in your
> living room. It would be an honor to get to know you better!
>
> I have no position or authority in the project. I am merely a bystander
> trying to be helpful.

Yes, you are right. And the honor is mine.

I only recently (6 months ago) joined the cause of free software 
movement. My roles in the GNU project: www.gnu.org Chinese (zh-cn) and 
Japanese web translator, GNU webmaster. My account name on Savannah is 
"jing", which is my given name.

> that shiny and powerful equipment in your living room.

I wouldn't say shiny, they are mostly second-hand or refurbished, but 
they are working really well and stable. Much of the equipment was 
purchased during the mining boom when I knew nothing about free 
software. When the crypto collapsed, I realized how unethical it was, 
and reused/repurposed the hardware for a homelab. Now I have more than 
30 VM/LXC running, for my self-hosted services and the mirror site 
repo.jing.rocks [1]. I loaned 1 LXC container to a friend of mine in BC, 
Canada who does scientific calculation. As a side note, my apartment is 
powered by renewable energy only (so the electricity company claims), 
you can say I'm making amends. Also repo.jing.rocks somehow has less 
outages than savannah.

I believe "sharing is caring". The services don't require much CPU power 
actually, and since I have spare storage space, I thought I could help 
the community I heavily rely on. The thing is that I'm still getting 
used to guix, and I'm struggling to know what/how to configure the 
system. I'm most familiar with Debian though.

Now, a message for x86_amd64 kernel developers on the list, which may 
look like an ad:
Are you suffering from long compiling time? Tired of waiting for the 
build to finish? I can loan a VM to you. With "make -j 200", it only 
takes 55 seconds to compile the kernel from scratch using the default 
kconfig, and 78 seconds with "make -j 128". Building GCC only takes less 
than 4 minutes- ("make -j 200"). Contact me for more details if you are 
interested.

[1] https://jing.rocks/2023/09/16/the-matrix-of-repo-jing-rocks

Happy hecking,

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Jing Luo
About me: https://jing.rocks/about/
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