GitLab isn't going to handle Chromium well. It doesn't perform well, and it's hard to maintain. It also has the GitHub workflow and similarly handles rebasing and review poorly.
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Gerrit stores nearly everything as notes in the Git repository and you don't end up maintaining a massive Ruby on Rails application + database providing a whole social media site.
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Well, already needs to move to something like Jenkins using instances on a cloud provider like AWS, GCP, OVH, etc. directly. So I'd imagine the first step will be setting up CI, and then hooking up Gerrit to Jenkins isn't that hard.
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I’m actually not going to a cloud provider, I need predictable costs, so I’ll either selfhost or rent instances at fixed price.
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ovhcloud.com/en-ca/public-c is what I was thinking of in particular. The costs are quite predictable as long as you aren't scaling things up horizontally in an arbitrary way.
Could go with persistent VPS / dedicated server if it's going to be churning away most of the time.
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I've been thinking about starting to use OVH public cloud instances for some development / testing builds. I certainly wouldn't try to use AWS because the pricing is ridiculous and they charge for bandwidth.
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A lot of the time I don't need more than my local workstation, but then sometimes I want to do a whole bunch of development builds and they really might as well be in parallel on separate instances. OVH pricing is really good and I think it could help me speed things up a lot.
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I can't really justify paying them for fancy dedicated servers to do development / testing builds because I'm just not going to use them enough. I was thinking about buying one and giving contributors SSH access to help contributors who don't have proper workstations though.
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32 core + 120GB memory compute instance with 400GB SSD and unlimited 10Gbps public bandwidth seems like it would work really well for doing a build.
No clue which CPUs they give you for public cloud though. I'm used to their more traditional persistent VPS and dedicated servers.
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Pricing for Canada is $1.30 (CAD) / hour for the general purpose one and $1.94 / hour for the higher frequency CPU one. I'll probably try it out. I can't do release builds anywhere but locally but I could be doing some development/testing builds in parallel with those instances.
I end up needing to do things like narrowing down which commit causes a problem where I need to do a ridiculous number of builds. It'd be so nice to have scripting to easily spin up a dozen of these and just end up paying something like 60 cents for each of the builds.
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Could also set it up so that a starting build can be uploaded when simply doing an incremental build. Sometimes I need to do many clean builds because I really need to rule out any possible problems and avoid false negatives / false positives for narrowing things down.
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