Vote: budget for Windows CI evaluation
Dear PLC,
the developer team wants to evaluate cloud provider Clouding.io http://clouding.io/ as a more powerful and flexible compute backend for Windows CI. This evaluation is scoped to a fixed budget of 150 € that we assume to last for 3 months of Windows CI (pay-as-you-go compute minutes, depends on development activity). That will give us enough time/jobs to make an assessment afterwards.
I ask you to vote for either:
a) Approve budget request for 150 € b) Disapprove this budget request c) Other, please explain
Background:
We are looking for a scalable solution to provide ephemeral Windows runners that is more powerful than GitLab's fleet and that does not rely on community members sponsoring hardware and utility bills.
The evaluation will be managed and the budget spent by me (there will be a regular invoice to be reimbursed).
Thank you,
René
I vote A.
On Tue, 2026-03-24 at 23:57 +0100, René de Hesselle wrote:
Dear PLC,
the developer team wants to evaluate cloud provider Clouding.io http://clouding.io/ as a more powerful and flexible compute backend for Windows CI. This evaluation is scoped to a fixed budget of 150 € that we assume to last for 3 months of Windows CI (pay-as-you-go compute minutes, depends on development activity). That will give us enough time/jobs to make an assessment afterwards.
I ask you to vote for either:
a) Approve budget request for 150 € b) Disapprove this budget request c) Other, please explain
Background:
We are looking for a scalable solution to provide ephemeral Windows runners that is more powerful than GitLab's fleet and that does not rely on community members sponsoring hardware and utility bills.
The evaluation will be managed and the budget spent by me (there will be a regular invoice to be reimbursed).
Thank you,
René _______________________________________________ Inkscape Board of Directors mailing list -- inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-board-leave@lists.inkscape.org
Vote A.
It'll be interesting to see how it works out! Ted On Mar 24 2026, at 5:57 pm, René de Hesselle dehesselle@icloud.com wrote:
Dear PLC,
the developer team wants to evaluate cloud provider Clouding.io http://clouding.io/ as a more powerful and flexible compute backend for Windows CI. This evaluation is scoped to a fixed budget of 150 € that we assume to last for 3 months of Windows CI (pay-as-you-go compute minutes, depends on development activity). That will give us enough time/jobs to make an assessment afterwards. I ask you to vote for either: a) Approve budget request for 150 € b) Disapprove this budget request c) Other, please explain
Background: We are looking for a scalable solution to provide ephemeral Windows runners that is more powerful than GitLab's fleet and that does not rely on community members sponsoring hardware and utility bills. The evaluation will be managed and the budget spent by me (there will be a regular invoice to be reimbursed).
Thank you, René _______________________________________________ Inkscape Board of Directors mailing list -- inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-board-leave@lists.inkscape.org
I vote a.
Best, Jonathan
Am 24.03.2026 um 23:58 schrieb René de Hesselle dehesselle@icloud.com:
Dear PLC,
the developer team wants to evaluate cloud provider Clouding.io http://clouding.io/ as a more powerful and flexible compute backend for Windows CI. This evaluation is scoped to a fixed budget of 150 € that we assume to last for 3 months of Windows CI (pay-as-you-go compute minutes, depends on development activity). That will give us enough time/jobs to make an assessment afterwards.
I ask you to vote for either:
a) Approve budget request for 150 € b) Disapprove this budget request c) Other, please explain
Background:
We are looking for a scalable solution to provide ephemeral Windows runners that is more powerful than GitLab's fleet and that does not rely on community members sponsoring hardware and utility bills.
The evaluation will be managed and the budget spent by me (there will be a regular invoice to be reimbursed).
Thank you,
René _______________________________________________ Inkscape Board of Directors mailing list -- inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-board-leave@lists.inkscape.org
I seem not to have received the original message.
I vote a.
----- Original Message ----- | From: "Jonathan Neuhauser" jonathan.neuhauser@outlook.com | To: "René de Hesselle" dehesselle@icloud.com | Cc: "Inkscape Board" inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org | Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2026 3:09:45 PM | Subject: [Inkscape-board] Re: Vote: budget for Windows CI evaluation | | I vote a. | | Best, | Jonathan | | > Am 24.03.2026 um 23:58 schrieb René de Hesselle | > dehesselle@icloud.com: | > | > Dear PLC, | > | > the developer team wants to evaluate cloud provider Clouding.io | > http://clouding.io/ as a more powerful and flexible compute | > backend for Windows CI. This evaluation is scoped to a fixed | > budget of 150 € that we assume to last for 3 months of Windows CI | > (pay-as-you-go compute minutes, depends on development activity). | > That will give us enough time/jobs to make an assessment | > afterwards. | > | > I ask you to vote for either: | > | > a) Approve budget request for 150 € | > b) Disapprove this budget request | > c) Other, please explain | > | > Background: | > | > We are looking for a scalable solution to provide ephemeral Windows | > runners that is more powerful than GitLab's fleet and that does | > not rely on community members sponsoring hardware and utility | > bills. | > | > The evaluation will be managed and the budget spent by me (there | > will be a regular invoice to be reimbursed). | > | > | > Thank you, | > | > René | > _______________________________________________ | > Inkscape Board of Directors mailing list -- | > inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org | > To unsubscribe send an email to | > inkscape-board-leave@lists.inkscape.org | _______________________________________________ | Inkscape Board of Directors mailing list -- | inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org | To unsubscribe send an email to | inkscape-board-leave@lists.inkscape.org |
Sounds good for evaluation purpose : (a)
On 3/24/26 23:57, René de Hesselle wrote:
Dear PLC,
the developer team wants to evaluate cloud provider Clouding.io http://clouding.io/ as a more powerful and flexible compute backend for Windows CI. This evaluation is scoped to a fixed budget of 150 € that we assume to last for 3 months of Windows CI (pay-as-you-go compute minutes, depends on development activity). That will give us enough time/jobs to make an assessment afterwards.
I ask you to vote for either:
a) Approve budget request for 150 € b) Disapprove this budget request c) Other, please explain
Background:
We are looking for a scalable solution to provide ephemeral Windows runners that is more powerful than GitLab's fleet and that does not rely on community members sponsoring hardware and utility bills.
The evaluation will be managed and the budget spent by me (there will be a regular invoice to be reimbursed).
Thank you,
René _______________________________________________ Inkscape Board of Directors mailing list -- inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-board-leave@lists.inkscape.org
I vote A.
Sorry for not catching this on Friday during the meeting.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 3:58 PM René de Hesselle dehesselle@icloud.com wrote:
Dear PLC,
the developer team wants to evaluate cloud provider Clouding.io http://clouding.io/ as a more powerful and flexible compute backend for Windows CI. This evaluation is scoped to a fixed budget of 150 € that we assume to last for 3 months of Windows CI (pay-as-you-go compute minutes, depends on development activity). That will give us enough time/jobs to make an assessment afterwards.
I ask you to vote for either:
a) Approve budget request for 150 € b) Disapprove this budget request c) Other, please explain
Background:
We are looking for a scalable solution to provide ephemeral Windows runners that is more powerful than GitLab's fleet and that does not rely on community members sponsoring hardware and utility bills.
The evaluation will be managed and the budget spent by me (there will be a regular invoice to be reimbursed).
Thank you,
René _______________________________________________ Inkscape Board of Directors mailing list -- inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-board-leave@lists.inkscape.org
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Jonathan Neuhauser -
Josh Andler -
Marc Jeanmougin -
Martin Owens -
René de Hesselle -
tavmjong＠free.fr -
Ted Gould