Cheers all, you may have seen related preparatory news on the NUT website or in the README changes, but now the next step is official: The fine folks at DigitalOcean approved FOSS sponsoring credits to re-host the custom-built multi-platform non-regression NUT CI farm, which builds several hundred scenarios per iteration (to cover a matrix with many OSes, toolkit versions and implementations, and dependency versions), with a tranche of credits that by my estimation should last for the intended year with VM config/setup comparable to what runs now elsewhere and has an eviction notice looming. As part of that discussion I've discovered that the social-networking element of GitHub et al with "stars"/"likes"/... of projects being a practical physically meaningful metric for FOSS sponsors to gauge the impact their help can make (and visibility it brings back). So it was surprising that NUT is around for a quarter of a century, installed and helping probably on millions of machines, and yet there are just a handful of visibly active people and 1.2k collected stars... Vim, bash, git or curl are similar as commonly pre-installed background radiation, but are way more "liked"! ;) Long story short: when you visit official repos of projects you use and like, don't hesitate to "star" them - sooner or later it can help them tangibly! Jim Klimov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20231129/2aff9ef4/attachment.htm>