Hey everyone, So, we have just landed a few enhancements to the newly added sync: feature in CI Train. There are also some other propositions/suggestions that we have to all landers, QA members and landing team people using the spreadsheet that we would like to propose here. Please read on!
** * Silo sync enhancements ** The silo sync requests have been improved slightly. Most of the changes are related to the ones that are configured with the 'sync:<silonumber>' syntax. The few noticeable changes are: - The sync silo now notices whenever the source silo is freed and will retarget itself to Ubuntu now in such a case. This means it is now basically safe to build a sync silo anytime, without worrying that we might pull in unwanted packages if the source silo got freed (and got assigned to something completely different in the meantime). - Silo sync landings will now update the source packages list that it pulls in from the source silo - which makes them possible to view on the dashboard. - Silo sync request silos can now be freely reconfigured by landing team members - You can now specify which specific packages you want to sync from a silo in a silo sync request. In the past it was only possible in distro and PPA synces. If no sources are listed, all contents of a silo are fetched as before. This can be reconfigured in a silo anytime. The overall syntax stays the same. The feature itself might still have some issues, but we tried testing as many cases as possible. If you have any problems, please feel free to contact someone from the current trainguards. Please be aware that some sync silos might require reassigning to get those features though. There are sill some issues remaining. There are many corner-cases and not all of them can be easily handled automatically. But at least we're going in the right direction. ** * Suggestion about comments in the spreadsheet ** We all hate the spreadsheet. But while it's still there let's at least try organizing ourselves in it as best as we can. Sometimes it can be troublesome when someone leaves a comment and then no one knows when it was added and by who. Google tools cannot help us here sadly. So we would like to propose a scheme for all comments included in the spreadsheet: nick/<date in the form of YYYYMMDD>: comment e.g. sil/20140905: blocked by silo 4 This way it will be more or less clear when and who entered the comment. It might take a bit more space but it might be useful, especially when leaving messages. We have been using it in the past already and it helped out in communication. Thanks and have a nice weekend! Best regards, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak [email protected] www.canonical.com -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
