xoft: I think the main issue with the buildserver is in fact an issue with GitHub, and It's been happening with Travis builds a bit recently too.
I would be open to upgrading the server to a new one, the current one is underpowered and overall not a great fit. I'm not entirely sure of the benefits of crowdsourcing the servers - for some builds there's a lot of manual setup like the Rasbperry Pi ones, and I doubt many people would be willing to spin up a debian stable box specially, if they don't use it already, and that's necessary because there are very large benefits to standardising the build environment.
The ideal solution would be to get a KS-1 or a KS-3 dedicated server, which have reasonably fast processors, good bandwidth and enough RAM. They come from OVH, a good hosting provider: http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/
The KS-1 is affordable for me but it's always out of stock so I haven't been able to rent one. For the KS-3 I can't really justify spending £13 a month on a server when I have basically no income of my own.
I would be open to upgrading the server to a new one, the current one is underpowered and overall not a great fit. I'm not entirely sure of the benefits of crowdsourcing the servers - for some builds there's a lot of manual setup like the Rasbperry Pi ones, and I doubt many people would be willing to spin up a debian stable box specially, if they don't use it already, and that's necessary because there are very large benefits to standardising the build environment.
The ideal solution would be to get a KS-1 or a KS-3 dedicated server, which have reasonably fast processors, good bandwidth and enough RAM. They come from OVH, a good hosting provider: http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/
The KS-1 is affordable for me but it's always out of stock so I haven't been able to rent one. For the KS-3 I can't really justify spending £13 a month on a server when I have basically no income of my own.