[webkit-dev] The tree is on fire: a tragedy of the commons

[Adam Barth]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Alex Milowski <alex at milowski.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Alex Milowski <alex at milowski.com> wrote:
>>>> The only EWS which requires committer access is Mac-EWS.  All other
>>>> EWS bots will run any patch.
>>>
>>> Why is that?   That's the platform I'm most interested in see run.
>>
>> Various reasons.  Mostly due to our current hardware setup.  If
>> someone has some mac hardware they'd like to donate to the cause it
>> would be most welcome.
>
> That seems really, really solvable.

The core issue here is that the license for Mac OS X prevents us from
running the OS in a virtual machine.  The way we protect ourselves
from random folks haxoring the EWS on Linux is by running them on EC2
and re-imagining the machines periodically.

If you'd like to donate hardware that you're willing to have random
folks run code on, please let me or Eric know and we'll show you how
to get the mac-ews up and running.

Adam