Re: Buying new Honeycombs (AArch64)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Alternatively, we may consider to move existing machines from ci to
> bordeaux and drop building the ARM packages twice. Redundancy is good,
> and we argued that this would help checking for reproducibility. But I
> doubt anybody does this already for x86.

The Data Service has been collecting reproducibility information,
summarized at <https://qa.guix.gnu.org/branch/master>.

I view build farm diversity as an important feature of the project, not
something we can drop because moving machines from one build farm to the
other is deemed easier (really?) than getting new machines.

Thanks,
Ludo’.