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Possible ppc64el Salsa CI runner donation?

Hi! I was reading https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/FAQ#Donating_runners and I have some Raptor Talos II machines and I could setup a VM and provide it as a Salsa CI runner for ppc64el if this is of interest?

Allocating 1TB disk, 32GB RAM and 4 cores should be possible.

They are currently hosted at a less optimal place, and I want to move them to another datacenter but this has taken some time already and I fear it may be several more weeks until it is completed. But I thought I'd open the issue to see if there is interest and how the process to complete this would be.

Do you want me to offer a root login account to a bare VM? Or do you prefer me to operate the gitlab runner, which I could do if I get some registration token?

Here is the process I have been using for my existing runners, which have been in production for use for around 2 years now:

https://gitlab.com/debdistutils/reproduce-trisquel/-/blob/main/gitlab-runner-with-podman-on-trisquel-aramo.md

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