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    <p>Hi Andreas,</p>
    <p>I totally agree, if an external service is not able to handle the
      size, this is a killer argument to setup "a beefy enough server"
      (to put it in Evens words) on our own.</p>
    <p>At opengis, we could spend 5 days on this in January, I'm happy
      to know if the PSC decides that this project should be a priority.</p>
    <p>Best regards</p>
    <p>Matthias<br>
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      <p>Hi Matthias,</p>
      <p>Outsourcing infrastructure is preferred - I think. But if the
        outsourced services are so limited that they can't handle a
        large project like QGIS, or take waaayyyyy ttoooooo
        loooooongggggg to build, then self-hosted might be superior? A
        six or 8-core machine at Hetzners is certainly affordable.</p>
      <p>Certainly something to investigate.</p>
      <p>Andreas</p>
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            <p>Hi Andreas,</p>
            <p>It would certainly be an option. And there are others as
              well (like good old Jenkins for example).</p>
            <p>Are you asking for self-hosted because of performance or
              for other reasons? I think in the past there was a shift
              towards outsourcing such things to external services that
              do this as their core business instead of having to manage
              infrastructure on our own (e.g. github, travis).</p>
            <p>As mentioned before, I think someone will need to invest
              some real time to exploring possibilities and limitations
              to be able to come forward with a good plan of action. I
              think it would be good to have a week of time to test
              different options.</p>
            <p>Matthias</p>
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              <p>Hi Matthias,</p>
              <p>Would it be an option to "self-host" appveyor at our
                own (to be ordered) Hetzner Windows machine?</p>
              <p>I see that Appveyor offers a self-hosted version, free
                for one team and with only community support: <a
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              <p>Andreas</p>
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                    <p>Hi Andreas,</p>
                    <p>Yes, I remember this. I also invested some time
                      into AppVeyor back then and the timeouts.</p>
                    <p>Finding a reliable solution and exploring
                      possibilities will be an investment in itself
                      already. I think that with a good financial
                      situation, it's also a good possibility for the
                      project to invest into such an area with a
                      potentially great benefit. But it's ultimately the
                      PSC's decision if the project prefers to sponsor
                      this work or hope for it to happen and outsource
                      the work and risks.</p>
                    <p>Matthias</p>
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                      <p>Hi,</p>
                      <p>The Windows CI thing would be worth-wile to
                        invest it. But I think we already had it in the
                        past and because of a lot of problems (e.g.
                        timeouts when building, etc.) we stopped using
                        it. I know that we definitely paid for such a
                        service in the past. It was called "Appveyor"
                        back then. Nyall might know more about it. I
                        think he paid for it upfront and then I
                        reimbursed him. That was in 2016.</p>
                      <p>I think we would first have to find a reliable
                        solution for Windows CI before investing into
                        it.</p>
                      <p>Andreas</p>
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                                  Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 9:57 PM Andreas
                                  Neumann <<a
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                                  padding-left: 1ex;">Any ideas? Do we
                                  have useful and important work that
                                  could be finished <br>
                                  until January for around 15k?</blockquote>
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                                  padding-left: 1ex;">Should we invest
                                  more QGIS bug fixing? Documentation
                                  (if we find one)? <br>
                                  Our infrastructure? Or upstream qt5
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                                    the infrastructure side, there seems
                                    to be interest in Windows based CI.
                                    See current thread on [Qgis-psc]
                                    Direct push forbidden to master.
                                    However, I'm not 100% sure how this
                                    relates to a previous discussion
                                    from 2018 in the
                                    thread [QGIS-Developer] Windows
                                    compilation infrastructure.</div>
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                                    style="font-size: small;">Regards,</div>
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