James Troup wrote: > alpha has recently had restrictions added because the main alpha > buildd has been down due to relocation[2] for some time now and so, as > a result, the number of byhand builds on random machines has shot up. > Once Goedel is back (tomorrow - apparently) and if the byhand builds > stop, these restrictions could be relaxed.
Sounds like you have a way to track the quantity and source of binary-only uploads. Does it come down to perusal of the upload queue and/or of wasted builds on the buildds, or is there something nicer, like a list or graph? (I'm looking for more data here, becuase I don't currently have enough for an informed opinion about some of the factors underlying the approach that you chose to deal with the problems you mentioned. If that makes any sense..) > [2] Unfortunately there was very little notice of goedel's move and it > was originally scheduled only to take a couple of days but was > unavoidably delayed by external factors. I hope that one of the offers of hardware for an alpha buildd that resulted in the meantime will be followed up on, so we get some redundancy? > (b) source only uploads are in my experience very often badly tested > if they're even tested at all. For a long time after Ubuntu > switched to source only uploads, it was really obvious that a > large number of them hadn't even been test built, never mind > installed or used.[3][4] Hmm, are you implying that it eventually got better? -- see shy jo, who's done the odd binary-only upload for arm before
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