James Westby wrote: > Celso Providelo wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Julian >> Edwards<julian.edwa...@canonical.com> wrote: >>> Jono or James, how long does "bzr builddeb" take roughly? Is it roughly >>> constant across packages or is there a notable difference? My concern is >>> that >>> we'll need more builders but if the job is quick enough we might not notice >>> them running. > > It's a variable amount of time, but much shorter than the job the > PPA builders currently do. Most packages will be <~30s, but outliers > could take 10 minutes or more. That won't be too much of a load, but if > there is too much overhead in the dispatching then the increase in jobs > could require a lot more builders. > >> That's where the magic of sharing the existing builders come, if it >> gets overloaded with branchjobs we can simple add more machines to the >> game when we notice they are needed. Considering that building source >> packages is essentially lighter than building binaries, I don't think >> they will cause a load that we cannot manage, even if there is some >> variation according the branch/source size. > > +1 > >> Building branches will also generate more load on the lp smartserver >> ... which also brings the authentication topic to mind. Are we going >> to build private branches ? Similarly to what we do for building P3A >> sources we should restrict the access given to builders when dealing >> with private branches, since `debian/rules` contains arbitrary code. > > As a first cut only building public branches would be a useful start. > However, I spoke with the OEM team at the sprint, and they seemed keen > to make use of this, so they would want builds of private branches. > There are also other teams in the company that would presumably want > to do this (desktop-experience?), so I imaging there would be > considerable pressure to support private branches. > > Public-only as a start would be ok with me, as long as there was a > commitment to add support for private branches soon after.
I think this is a very sane approach; I'd expect the difficulties with private branches to be basically orthogonal to the difficulties just getting the basic setup going, so let's not try to do everything at once. Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
