[GHC DevOps Group] CI

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Ben in an earlier email had a rough estimate, which I added to the Trac page:

  https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ContinuousIntegration#Usageestimate

> 13.10.2017, 04:22 Boespflug, Mathieu <m at tweag.io>:
> 
> On 12 October 2017 at 19:07, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>> "Boespflug, Mathieu" <m at tweag.io> writes:
>> 
>>> Some extra points by Jonas, that I'm just forwarding:
>>> 
>>> - CircleCI & Appveyor Cons: dependent on third-party for feature development.
>>> - Funding: on one side we have free RackSpace servers, on the other
>>> side CircleCI might be willing to fund as well.
>> 
>> Right, I think one of us should get in touch with CircleCI to see
>> whether they would be willing to offer us an extension of their usual
>> open-source offer. That would certainly change the equation a bit.
>> Perhaps Manuel or I could do this?
> 
> To Greg's point, if we have specific data that would justify a
> specific level of build job parallelism that we'd like to achieve,
> then that might be worth a shot, yes.