Re: [gnu-advisory] Request for a VM hosting Allura bugtracker forGNU LilyPond

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Wednesday, June 17, 2015 8:33 AM

> Everybody wants as much as possible and the point of a VM is to support
> multiple tasks.  So it would be good if we could narrow it down
> somewhat.  We are only going to run Allura here right now, no compilers
> and other stuff.  We don't want to get as low in memory as to
> significantly increase disk traffic.  But since we are not going to run
> a desktop (correct me if I am wrong) I think we should be fine with a
> starting RAM of 1GB.  If we find that we need consistently more or less,
> we can still ask back.

I take the point about not being greedy, but I wonder if we want to retain an 
option to compile Allura from source.  Clearly we don't want to get into Allura 
development, but there are already many patches applied to the source that are 
not in the latest release, and already we have met the nuisance of having to 
import, export and re-import the DB just to change the author from *anonymous 
to googleimporter.  A process that seems to fail much more often than it 
succeeds.  That would be an easy fix to apply if we had compile ability.

Trevor