Hi folks, Since we last ran buildd machines, much has been changed. One thing that's changed is the way wanna-build orders packages for build; in the old days this only looked at previous build state (already-built packages are built before not-yet-built packages), priorities, section, and then just ascii ordering; but these days wanna-build also looks at age (how long has a package been in needs-build), and at a build-priority which is 0 by default but can be set by using wanna-build --build-prio=<value> (for a particular version of a package), or wanna-build --permanent-build-prio=<value> (for all versions of a package), where positive values increase the priority.
I've been thinking that rather than trying to build everything, we could prioritize based on what we think would be more useful to build (or based on feedback from users, what they would want). We could use this build-priority value to reorder packages in that manner. Thoughts? Occasionally, you should have a look at http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/ some time. The curve is going steeply uphill these days, for the first time in a very long time. Having said that, we could still use some extra buildd hosts; unfortunately it turned out that arrakis' memory was bad, so that means we have "only" three active machines right now (elgar, vivaldi, and ara5, Thorsten's ARAnyM VM). I'm going to look at adding ska, quickstep, and an ARAnyM VM of my own later today, but for the time being it's just those three; if anyone is up for reviving some machines, please do! -- Copyshops should do vouchers. So that next time some bureaucracy requires you to mail a form in triplicate, you can mail it just once, add a voucher, and save on postage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121230152429.gb32...@grep.be
