apply for Azure credits to open source projects

Microsoft is giving Azure credits to open source projects: https://opensource.microsoft.com/azure-credits

@proletarius101 said he'd want to manage this, so I'm writing up the application.

1.Open source project name

F-Droid

2.URL for project repository

https://gitlab.com/fdroid

3.Your name ?

4.Your email (All communications about your application will be sent to this address.)

Maybe team@f-droid.org here? I forget who is on that now. Could be whatever.

5.URL for project's Code of Conduct Please ensure this URL includes information about the enforcement process for your Code of Conduct.

https://f-droid.org/docs/Code_of_Conduct

6.Project license

GPLv3 and Apache-2.0

7.We'd like to learn about your project. Please tell us, in 3-4 sentences, what problem(s) your project is focused on solving, what technology your project improves, and/or what people your project is working to help.

F-Droid is both a repository of verified free software Android apps as well as a whole “app store kit”, providing all the tools needed to setup and run an app store. F-Droid is pioneering reproducible builds for Android. We have a release process based on reproducible builds for shipping apps on f-droid.org. On top of that, our full buildserver stack is available for use by any project that wants to automate reproducible builds of Android apps written in any language.

This stack fully reproducible itself, built with tools like Ansible. Anyone with access to the app's source code can verify a release by spinning up our stack in the cloud and running the build. This fully automates mass builds and mass verification of releases.

8.Why are you applying for Azure credits? What do you plan to use the credits for?

These credits will let us support Azure in our stack, on top of VirtualBox, libvirt, and Docker. It will also provide app authors who want to work on reproducible builds a pre-prepared build environment to work in.

9.Does your project currently receive any other funding from other sources? If so, from where and for what purposes? (Enter "N/A" if not applicable to your project)

• We receive direct donations from contributors on the internet https://f-droid.org/donate
• OSUOSL provides 5 servers for us
• pep.security provides 2 VMs
• FOSShost provides 2 VMs

10.Does your project currently receive any other funding from Microsoft? If so, from what team(s) or project(s)?

F-Droid has not received funding from Microsoft.

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marked this issue as related to #78

assigned to @proletarius101

Thanks. So it will be me who submit it, right?

Submitted

Works for me that you submit it! :) Keep us posted here please. This recent work doing Docker support for the buildserver means that we can easily run buildserver instances on any VM. Before, we were limited to KVM since we needed nested VMs. It should be easy to deploy to Azure using fdroid-bootstrap-buildserver.

Your initial Azure credits grant is for $10,000 in credits. You can find more information on Azure pricing at this webpage: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/. These credits will expire on May 31, 2022. When you accept the credits you will be asked to provide a payment source for your account. You will be notified via email about your usage if you start to near the credit limit 3 times: at 80% usage, 90% usage, 95% usage, and also once the credit limit is reached. When and if this happens, your payment source will begin to be charged.

We would like to also stay in contact with you about what your project is using the Azure credits for and to talk more about your important work in the open source community. We will contact you again in about a month to confirm your grant has been successfully applied to your account and to learn more about how things are going.

wow, let's go crazy running stuff on Azure then! $10k in a 4 months sounds like a lot of cloud time. Thanks for managing that @proletarius101

What's the status of this? I would like to try a mass fdroiddata rebuild with this.

It's already there. I can share you a VM

yes please!

Submitted another request for the next cycle (after May 31)

changed due date to January 01, 2023

Status as of today:

Used

7318 USD

Remaining

2682 USD

Expiry

31 May 2023

7-day average usage per day

5.314 USD

changed due date to May 31, 2023

The sponsorship for this year ends. We will need to reapply if we want to continue using it

Sounds useful to have, the buildserver instances are at least quite a bit faster than what we have on OSUOSL. What do you need to reapply?

I already sent a new application using the information you posted. We'll have to wait for the result. It's inevitable that our resources in our last subscription will be torn down.

Did they ever respond? Would it be worth trying again now? It seems they are still running the program: https://opensource.microsoft.com/azure-credits/#credits-apply

They still haven't replied. However, the previous grant was terminated.

changed due date to February 29, 2024

It seems like this is no longer a program from Azure, so I'm closing this. If it is again an option, please reopen.

closed