On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:37:08PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > > Easy: the best tools we've got to judge whether buildds are keeping up > > are the buildd graphs which indicate that with the exception of m68k > > and arm (hrm, and possibly hppa), all our ports are doing extremely well. > This is the only metric? How about long delays on particular > packages? The average amount built is not the only consideration.
No, not the only, the best. It is mostly the responsibility of the maintainer to resolve package specific issues though; which usually amount to three things: FTBFS bugs, problems with toolchains and build-depends that only affect one package or a few, and problems with P-a-s not being accurate. Toolchain issues usually, which seem to be your concern, take some time to resolve, and are often fixed by "mass give-backs" once related issues have worked their way through the build system. Sometimes the related problems take a while to resolve, of course. FTBFS issues are the most common though, as well as the easiest to resolve; your point would carry more weight if you took the time to fix yours first. (Looking through -private, I saw someone remark that 1000 bugs was too many -- we have got 1400 _RC_ bugs at the moment...) (Also, those graphs do not indicate the "average" amount by any measure, so your characterisation is again completely wrong. Please take more care) Cheers, aj
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