Anytime builder VMs for devs (was: test infrastructure ideas appreciated ...)

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi Björn, *,

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen
<bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 02:33:23PM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
>>       Constructive thoughts appreciated in reply here.
>
> Budget for 2-5 of our Hackfest VMs[1] to always be on standby for someone
> wanting to do a fast build, and provision for Cloph to be able to hand out
> log-ins at a quick ping on IRC.

What is the suggested "standby time"? Creating a disk-image/EC2
virtual machine from a stored snapshot takes a while (>20min).

ciao
Christian