Hi Guix! Recently, the Guix project experimented with using a CDN to improve substitute availability and performance. This email summarizes the results of the test for your review. I also hope this e
Hello Chris! I'm I living in the past, or did you mean another date than March 23rd? [...] [...] I haven't noticed a big difference on ci.guix.info; but then my WiFi link seems to saturate around 1 M
Hi Maxim, Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> skribis: One of the motivations for this is that berlin.guixsd.org aka. ci.guix.info is a single machine, the head of our main build farm. If that machine g
Two things: 1) It is not a core part of Guix’s infrastructure. People who want to bypass the CDN can do so by fetching substitutes from berlin.guixsd.org instead of ci.guix.info. People can also op
In "14.4.1 Software Freedom" of the Guix manual it says that Guix is free software and follows the free software distribution guidelines. Is using a proprietary non free CDN as a core part of Guix's
Hello Ludovic! I see. I understand that having the service continue running smoothly while fixing ci.guix.info must be a good stress reliever. [...] Right. I understand better the motivation behind t
[...] Looks like someone was benefitting from the CDN in China: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-03/msg00222.html I vote that we continue using it. During the Guix Days, the availab
Hi Maxim and others, No, you're right: I mixed up my months. The test actually began on January 23rd, 2019, and concluded on February 23rd (31 days total). By the way, I've double checked the other s
Hi everyone, Regarding DNS, it would be nice if we could use an official GNU subdomain. If we can't use a GNU subdomain, we should at least make sure we have some kind of DNS auto-renewal set up so t
I could help with this. Whom should I contact? I do try to avoid the term "cloud" whenever possible. It's hard to avoid when it's in the product name, though! A wise man once said, "A cloud in the mi
Hello! Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis: [...] That summarizes the situation very well. In Paris, there was consensus on two things: that a CDN would be helpful for performance and availabilit
Hi Guix, in order to improve availability of binary substitutes and download speeds for many users, we will experiment with Amazon’s CloudFrontCDN service for https://ci.guix.info. Note that this
Hello Chris, Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis: Agreed. Regarding the GNU sub-domain, as I replied to Meiyo, I’m in favor of it, all we need is someone to champion setting it up. (Note that d
Am 09.12.2018 um 04:33 schrieb Chris Marusich: Instead, we would be using a CDN as a performance optimization that is transparent to a Guix user. You seem unsettled by the idea of entrusting any part
Hi Guix, This change is complete and verified. Substitutes are now being successfully served via ci.guix.info, over both HTTP and HTTPS like before. You can also continue to access Cuirass via the sa
Hi Chris, Sorry for the delay. My computer was reinstalled with Windows and taken away by my girlfriend. So I have been waiting for my new computer that I bought online to arrive. Finally, it arrived
Could you try running the measure_get shell function I included in the following email? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00192.html For convenience, here is the definition: --
Hi, I have changed my mind. I don't care about the domain name of the default substitute server any more. I am more worried about the network speed within China. While I am writing this email, my com