Hardware requirements for buildds and porter boxes

This list is not final, and if you have questions, please talk to DSA on #debian-admin on IRC or email dsa@debian.org.

Requirements for individual hosts

Must have:

• Out of band management with dedicated network port, preferably a BMC, or failing that, serial console and networked power bars
• Rackmount
• No human intervention to power on.
• Warranty or post-warranty hardware support, preferably provided by the sponsor.
• Under the 'ownership' of Debian (a long-term loan can also work).

Would like to have:

• Production quality rather than pre-production hardware. This can be waived in cases such as when there is no production hardware available at all.
• Support for multiple drives (so we can do RAID)

Requirements for ports

Must have/be

• At least two machines to act as buildds.
• At least one machine to act as a porter box.
• Hosted in two different locations
• Supported in Debian stable. Waived for ports approved by ftp-masters and the release team for inclusion in a future stable release.
• The machine's architecture has an actively-maintained stable kernel in the archive.
• Packages critical for DSA operations available: puppet, samhain, syslog-ng, ferm/pf, etc.

Would like to have:

• Hosted in two different legal jurisdictions.

Documentation

DSA requests porters create a wiki sub-page of the HardwareQualification page to document how the hardware for their port meets all the above requirements.