Re: Should we apply for GitLab's open source program?

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 04:35:34PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Given our growing reliance on GitLab and the recent announcement about
> free tier minutes:
> 
>   https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/faq-consumption-cicd/
> 
> is it time we officially apply for GitLab's Open Source Program:
> 
>   https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/program/
> 
> ?
> 
> From what I can see the QEMU project will easily qualify - the only
> minor inconvenience is needing to reapply every year. So far it seems as
> a public project their are no usage limits anyway. We are currently
> listed as 0 of 50,000 minutes:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/groups/qemu-project/-/usage_quotas#pipelines-quota-tab
> 
> So we are in no pressing hurry to do this for the minutes but I suspect
> there may be other things that are made easier by having access to all
> the toys GitLab provides. Daniel has already posted to the forum
> requesting details about how this might affect our workflow so maybe we
> should just wait for feedback until pressing on?
> 
>   https://forum.gitlab.com/t/ci-cd-minutes-for-free-tier/40241/33

Yes, please apply. If there is anything I can help with, please let me
know.

QEMU has Rackspace hosting credit so we can run x86 CI runners. I can
help set that up but need input regarding the number of instances, RAM,
OSes, etc.

Stefan

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