On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:31, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > Don't even bother bringing up "redundant fiber". It may be, if it hasn't > been regroomed, and twenty plus years of network administrators have > learned the hard way that the gun is ALWAYS loaded. The best you can hope > for is a misfire.
Debian is no enterprise, but debian is a group of responsible developers. To argue slightly ellipsoid: Putting up a requirement for 2 or 3 buildds hints at experiences of disasters by those involved that could have been easily fixed by a second machine. Thus the requirement. Debian as a whole is not very catastrophe-resistant statically, but is able to route around urgent breakage - as necessary - on a global scale. For example take the fire in U Twente, which took some Debian infrastructure down without causing widespread mayhem. There seem to be only disagreements on urgency on a smaller scale. Buildd availability for example. Regards, David -- - hallo... wie gehts heute? - *hust* gut *rotz* *keuch* - gott sei dank kommunizieren wir Ãber ein septisches medium ;) -- Matthias Leeb, Uni f. angewandte Kunst, 2005-02-15
