Astropy Nightly Benchmark: Possible collaboration with NumFOCUS

[Pey Lian Lim]

To whom it may concern,

Zach Burnett and I spoke to Addo Davies Jr from NumFOCUS about possibly collaborating with them to revive Astropy's broken nightly benchmarks. They are looking into using AWS EC2 dedicated instances to do such a thing for (some) NumFOCUS projects. However, each project would have to pay for the EC2 themselves. A very, very rough estimate is "$100-$300 a month" though I would not waste time debating about the cost at this stage.

Next step: NumFOCUS would send us demo and report back from a proof-of-concept attempt (possibly using our benchmarks). I will relay the info as they become available. ETA unknown.

Related issues:

* Benchmarking for Projects: https://github.com/numfocus/infrastructure/issues/11

* How we Visualize Benchmarks: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-benchmarks/issues/117
* How we do benchmarking: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-benchmarks/issues/120
* Nightly" benchmarking hosted by STScI currently broken: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-benchmarks/issues/130
* Seek hardware to run nightly benchmark outside of STScI: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-benchmarks/issues/140

Please let me know if you have questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Pey-Lian