[Desire HD Android Development] Mustaavalkosta:
Basic infrastructure

TL;DR: Gimme ya wallet.

So, I went ahead with the itch to take the next step to improve how things are run and done and ordered virtual private server and paid 3 months of it out of my own pocket. Although there are free cloud based bug trackers, this allows us to have proper fully customizable bug tracker (no offence to XDA's try at it) and also host a limited amount of files in yet another geolocation (Roubaix, France). Having a download mirror with full root access was the number one motivator though. These will be run as trial basis to see if there are enough benefits to have such things thus I didn't want to pay for proper domain yet and just used one of my spare ones I had acquired for free.

Bugzilla: https://beard.ovh/

Download mirror: https://downloads.beard.ovh/

Filing bugs is closed for now to avoid a flood of useless bug reports from extremely broken preview builds. I will open it to public once we reach a nightly stage. You can register and view my test bug in the meantime.

Download mirror trial will only cover ace for now due to the storage limits on the server with the cheapest service level. If there's demand for these services and they will be actually used, there'll be a need for funding. I won't be asking for anyone to donate anything but the reality is that these professionally hosted platforms cost actual money and not just someone's time that they are freely giving to common good. So, that being said if you like what you will be having an access to for the next 3 months you can support the services by using the donate button at the bottom of the download page. I have directed my XDA donations to EFF during CM11.0 and won't be taking anything from the donations, just paying the server and domain bill with them.

VPS service levels are:

VPS Classic 1: 1 vCore, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB Raid 10, 2.50€/month, 30€/year

VPS Classic 2: 2 vCores, 2 GB RAM, 25 GB Raid 10, 6.20€/month, 74.40€/year

VPS Classic 3: 3 vCores, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB Raid 10, 9.90€/month, 118.80€/year

VPS Classic 4: 4 vCores, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB Raid 10, 18.60€/month, 223.20€/year

Every level has also 100 MB/s (up to 10 TB of bandwidth, 1 MB/s after that), Anti-DDoS, 1 IPv4 + 1 IPv6 address and backup made once a week. Service provider is OVH.

It's currently on the Classic 1 level and it can hold files for one iteration of Android (nightlies and release builds) with a bit extra space available for test builds etc.. If people want to have files from past iterations available too it needs to be upgraded at least to Classic 2. Including saga files will likely need an upgrade to Classic 2 also but it's not really something ace users should worry about. Classic 1 is very cheap though and won't need much money to keep it going if even a handful of you can chip in. Classic 3 and 4 are already quite pricy and quite frankly I don't see much point upgrading to those.

Anyways, I will re-evaluate the situation after 3 months and either continue running the server or close it down based on how useful it turned out to be and sadly also based on the amount of donations. Again, I don't want to make anyone feel bad because they can't or don't want to donate. I just wanted to see if this kind of thing can give us something more than what we currently have. If not, luckily I only wasted this Caturday on learning how to setup customized userdir for apache and how to setup a Bugzilla instance for the price of a pint (yeah, we have crazy expensive beer here). Money well spent I would say.

In other news, new preview build should be available soon. We have made quite nice progress on various fronts. Telephony is currently the only major thing that's still broken but even that is showing some life. PIN code was already requested and baseband version acquired. Making calls is not yet possible and data connection is still dead though.