On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 08:15:32PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > We are facing some real limitations on our turn around time for > things at the moment and they are only going to get worse as we have > newer releases that will get the delta rpms. At the same time, the > same people are getting raked over the coals for not getting bits > out fast enough. > > We are working on this from a rel-eng standpoint, but advocating for > a bit of discretion on what should be pushed as an update is not > entirely a bad thing. Personally, I would love it if package > maintainers slowed down a bit. But it's not an end solution. > > So certainly the leadership, defined as FESCo and FPB, is not in > conflict with the contributor's apparent direction. As far as I can > see, they haven't made a statement either way. If there is a group > that was pushing for something that ran contrary, it was Rel-Eng. > And given that Jesse and I both just said we're going to basically > stop begging people to slow down on updates, I think even that group > is trying to figure out a way to make things better. Hell, that's > partly what this FAD is all about. If the FAD identifies some tangibles (hardware, etc.) that would help alleviate some of the time problems, I can tell you that Spot and I will do our best to procure them. From what I've heard others describe up until now, it doesn't seem like there's one clear roadblock in that regard -- just a huge mountain of tasks that our current systems have to chug through for composing, and no matter how you slice it, it takes a lot of time and I/O bandwidth. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
