[Jenkins-infra] Rackspace is willing to continue sponsorship

[Kohsuke Kawaguchi]

I'll find out, but even if it's just 3 months I think it's still
worthwhile. After all, we are already using them today, it's costing us
money. What they are saying is that the bill will go to $0. No action
needed on our part. We just get to postpone the effort of moving it
elsewhere, and that's valuable.

This is a different situation from when we got into Azure, where we had to
invest significant effort to migrate into Azure. There, obviously we don't
want to migrate back out after 3 months!

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:50 AM R. Tyler Croy <rtyler at brokenco.de> wrote:

> (replies inline)
>
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
>
> > A rep from Rackspace reached out to me and he said he's working on an
> > arrangement to resurrect the sponsorship of our account on Rackspace. I
> think
> > this is a great development.
> >
> > The only thing they are asking in return is to be able to use the
> project's
> > logo on their page, that they support us. It sounded like it is a part
> of the
> > broader marketing effort to position their new service called "Spin Up",
> which
> > is targeting developers. They are not expecting us to migrate servers or
> > anything like that, but my assumption is that our "subscription plan"
> changes
> > into this new brand.
> >
> > Let me know what you think. Unless I hear the objections, I'd like to
> go back
> > to him that the project would like to move forward. I'll also hand over
> this
> > conversation to Olivier so that I won't have to be the middleman.
>
>
>
> Have they expressed any desirable timeframe to support us? I would love to
> see
> them at least put down some sort of year or two committment, at least in
> email.
> They pulled the rug out from under a LOT of open source projects recently,
> all
> of whom had the same quid-pro-quo arrangement we had.
>
> I think it's great to utilize Rackspace, but only if they're going to stick
> around for a year or two to support us.
>
>
> Toodles
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