---- Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...> wrote: > All, > > The QuickBuild build farm was taken offline this morning and will remain > offline indefinitely. While I realize this pushes R14 release further > out, the cold hard reality is that donations have fallen so much, along > with the bad economy impacting my own finances, that I cannot afford to > keep the build farm running at this time. Finances were already strained > with the Web server upgrade, as the new software required newer hardware > to keep performance at a reasonable level. > > My intention was to keep the build farm running until R14 was released, > then see if any donations came in to cover some of the costs. However, > this morning the main chiller was destroyed due to sudden power > brownouts/surges, forcing the build farm offline. As I do not have the > funds to replace this chiller, and with the onset of spring/warmer > temperatures here, I cannot restart the build farm at this time. > > I will do my best to bring one builder online for each architecture in the > next few days, but this severe drop in build power will obviously cause > full archive rebuilds to take several months at minimum. As a result we > need to start looking at dropping support for older Ubuntu versions, > though I did not want to take this step as I know some larger deployments > depend on this support. > > All other TDE services are not affected at this time. > > Sorry for the bad news! > > Timothy Pearson > Trinity Desktop Project > Not bad news -- an opportunity for improvement! Let's pass the hat again between this list and the trinity-user list and get this covered. I'll chip in. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.