benjyw
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3 months ago Hi, checking in on this - we are currently using a dedicated server generously provided by WOA, and we have been asked to stop using that server and request these resources instead. We hope to have a smooth transition that doesn't mean we cannot release for ARM. Thanks!
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If you are interested in requesting credits for Github Arm Runners, please fill out the details below.
Proposals will be evaluated on a biweekly basis and responses will be done via email
Name, email, company, job title
Benjy Weinberger benjyw@gmail.com
Stu Hood stuhood@gmail.com
Josh Cannon joshdcannon@gmail.com
Lead maintainers of the Pants Build System.
Note that projects with two or more participants are preferred.
Project Title and description
The Pants Build System
The Pants Build System
Pants is a modern build system with a strong focus on Python, as well as JVM, Go and other languages. It uses static analysis to infer dependencies automatically, instead of requiring large amounts of accompanying config and metadata. Pants is written in a combination of Rust and Python. It is distributed on GitHub Releases as a set of per-platform native Python wheels with an embedded
.sobuilt from the Rust code.Pants currently has around 20 active maintainers, across several companies and organizations, plus many more casual, occasional contributors.
Pants development is supported by Pants Build, a registered California 501c(6) non-profit (I am the treasurer of that organization).
Describe your use case for these machines
As Linux on aarch64 becomes increasingly popular, more of our users are requesting that Pants run on this platform. To support this we need access to this platform to run CI to build, test and package Pants.
Which members of the community would benefit from your work?
These fall into two broad categories:
As Arm becomes more popular, these users have been increasing in number. We were previously using dedicated hardware generously provided by the "Works on Arm" program to build these binaries. But those resources are going away, and we need an alternative so we can continue to support our users on the Arm platform.
Is the code that you’re going to run 100% open source?
Yes.
Provide the URLs where it is located, or a Git repository.
Project code is here: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants Documentation is here: https://www.pantsbuild.org/
Please outline your credits requirements at a high level to support Arm builds (purpose, duration, amount, other)
We need resources sufficient to run a GitHub Actions runner that can install the Rust toolchain, download third-party Rust and Python dependencies, compile Rust code, and run our platform-specific tests and smoke tests. As a rough estimate, based on our resource consumption on the current "Works on Arm" machines: 8 cores, 32GB of RAM, 512GB SSD.
Please share a public URL of the CI dashboard (if applicable).
https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/actions
Does the project allows the use of your project logo on ARM's developer website freely? Yes / No / Not Sure
Yes, we own the logo and have already happily granted that use to Works on Arm.
Important reminders and logistics
Approved projects will be encouraged to provide credit back to Works on Arm in the form of a logo display, blog post, Twitter post, news release, or some other suitable acknowledgement.
We are happy to already be doing so: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants
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