Re: Re: pre-building NEW packages, when they only introduce new binary packages

2008-02-12 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Le February 12, 2008 03:19:47 am Joerg Jaspert, vous avez écrit : > On 11293 March 1977, Philippe Cloutier wrote: > > Lets jump in here, even if not all points address your mail only. > > > If by "disfavour" you imply that it's intentional that NEW packages > > aren't built before being accepted,

Re: Re: Re: pre-building NEW packages, when they only introduce new binary packages

2008-02-11 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Dear Philippe, if the ressources are scarce, I think that it would be fair that the internal competition for the access to them would be organised in a productive way. The current system disfavours the works that changes the structure of the package. How does this fit in a strategy to optimise t

Re: Re: pre-building NEW packages, when they only introduce new binary packages

2008-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:44:59PM -0500, Philippe Cloutier a écrit : > > If the NEW package gets earlier in the queue, it's built more quickly, > but packages that come later are built more slowly. Dear Philippe, if the ressources are scarce, I think that it would be fair that the internal comp

Re: Re: pre-building NEW packages, when they only introduce new binary packages

2008-02-11 Thread Philippe Cloutier
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:10:20 -0500 Philippe Cloutier wrote: > > That probably won't make much time difference on "fast" archs (i386, > > amd64 etc), but on slower ones like mips, mipsel etc (those sometimes > > hold up testing transition :(). > A missing build will only slow testing migration if