Node.js MacStadium tasks

[bensternthal]

Final provisioning and cut over

Documentation

Decommission old machines

[ryanaslett]

Something seems wrong with the VPN we use to access/adminster the orka cluster.

I got in there today to begin work on adding support to the testing ephemeral images so that they have a mountable disk to store the ccache, and the VPN will only connect for about a minute before disconnecting.

I opened up a support request with MacStadium.

[ryanaslett]

VPN Issue is solved.

Next up:

• configure the instances to leverage a permanent ccache
• create new images for macos that have the correct usable xcode version installed.
• enable instances with new ccache and ensure we have builds that build in a reasonable timeframe

[mhdawson]

This was discussed in the build WG meeting, and so that everybody is aware, this is top priority for ryan's available cycles from the build teams perspective (other than short term fires) as it is blocking a number of PR's and V8 upgrades in the Node.js project.

[bensternthal]

@mhdawson @mcollina I wanted to give you and update that in our triage meeting today we are targeting this work being complete by the end of the week.

[anonrig]

@mhdawson @mcollina I wanted to give you and update that in our triage meeting today we are targeting this work being complete by the end of the week.

Amazing news!

[mhdawson]

@bensternthal thanks for the update and great to hear!

[mhdawson]

For visiblity this (or possibly unrelated issues with MacOS infra) is now blocking the ability of the project to get out v20 releases. It was blocked eariler by an issue @ryanaslett resolved last week, but there is some new issue so the v20 release has been blocked for 2 weeks and the build team has been getting questions.

The new issue is nodejs/build#4012. It would be great if we could get daily updates on that issue so that people in the project can see what's been done and progress being made. It's understood that problems may not be able to be fixed immediately, but in absence of that having progress info is a real help.

[mhdawson]

@bensternthal in terms of https://github.com/openjs-foundation/cross-project-council/blob/main/project-resources/requesting_LFIT_support.md, still working out what we should do when. Is opening a JIRA as outlined in "What to do in an emergency" appropriate for nodejs/build#4012 ?

[bensternthal]

@mhdawson The docs are up-to-date with regards to what to do in an emergency. I would say if you are unable to reach Ryan via slack or if it's not during USA working hours, Jira is appropriate.

[ryanaslett]

Opening a ticket here and marking it critical will now actually send us a slack message too