Re: [Wg-test-framework] Test-as-a-service deployment costing

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Rzeszutek Wilk
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To: Lars Kurth
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Subject: Re: [Wg-test-framework] Test-as-a-service deployment costing

>> The key challenges are:
>> * We can't employ anybody via the Linux Foundation (they already made 
>> clear that this is too complex and unusual for what they do today)
>> * This leaves us with : vendors donating time (which in practice never 
>> works, unless a single vendor takes full responsibility). 
>> * Employing somebody on behalf of the project within a vendor : this 
>> may be politically, legally and logistically difficult and will need 
>> to be discussed by the board
>> * And we don't need a full-time person, unless we include triaging, etc.  
>
> So the sticking point is actually finding a person who Xen AB could hire to 
> do this triage and also in some way help Ian Jackson (as he or she could do 
> both jobs - osstest and XenRTT).
> And without that - the costs for hardware, setup, etc are kind of moot as 
> there would be nobody to shepard them.

Correct
We have to resolve this at the Advisory Board level (but not necessarily today)

Lars
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