-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:00:54 +0200 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/22/2013 05:03 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Based on discussion at Flock, on the devel mailing list, and in the > > FESCo meeting, we are looking for feedback on the idea of a longer > > release cycle for Fedora 21 -- not (right now at least) the bigger > > question of the 6-month cycle overall, but just, right now, slowing > > down for a release to get some things in order. > > E.g. going after these: http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f20-failed.html > > Right now we have ~350+ broken packages, a lengthy series of broken > deps, an unknown amount of defacto unmaintained packages and an > unknown amout of maintainers having gone MIA. > > > What Infrastructure projects would be helped by this? > A web infrastructure to > * ease package orphanage. > * launch AWOL/MIA requests > * a unified koji/bodhi/bugzilla Web-GUI Since we dont run bugzilla I dont know that we could, I did bring up at flock that id like to see a unified web gui for koji bodhi and packagedb. > * much longer build.log holding time for FTBFS. This is a setting for the cron job that cleans things up. We have it at a week because we have been tight on space for years. it used to be two weeks. I just bumped it to four weeks for build logs and 3 weeks for scratch builds, since we moved to bigger storage recently. > > Also, > - faster builders: Introduction of the arm has significantly > increased the turn around times of package building. > - better mirroring: I am having the impression mirrormanager doesn't > work well at all. E.g. this morning, yum sent me around the globe for > rawhide and failed in the end, seemingly because all fast mirrors > seem to be busy loading f20. > > > Web and design team, > > would slowing down the release focus allow time to work on, oh, > > say, getting the Wiki beautiful (or does it not matter)? > Well, IMO the web design is the least issue to be concerned about > wrt. the release process and packager works. > > What would really make sense is a faster koji/bodhi/bugzilla. From > here, esp. bugilla is such kind of clumsy to use and ... such kind of > slooow, I am glad I don't have to use it. we do not run bugzilla, we cant do much about it. there has been people looking at bugtracking and moving to something we would run. Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIWQiUACgkQkSxm47BaWfeicwCeJ33sq/sgHyo067rMWKByc5uS XJUAoIm6oBJKAPIsatWFdWL4ILoDYYmD =pEWq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
