Re: status update

Laura Creighton <[email protected]> writes:

>> My point was the snake-farm is doing its job.  It is a nice benefit.
>> But it would be even better if we could get it stable, so there's only
>> green.
>
> Is this still a 'not enough people and not enough hours in the day'
> problem, or could something else happen to expedite matters?

Well, I know I don't have enough time. When I started with this, I
thought I'd be helping out with squashing python bugs, but as it turns
out, most of my time has gone into the building/testing frame work. I
still have hopes that this is a phase I'll get through, but (as with
all such projects) it has consumed far more time than I expected. It
turns out that Xenofarm is a tremendous success at Lysator: everyone
want their software tested in the farm. That's why they're not helping
us; they're busy on their own projects. All in all, this means that
CPU cycle consumption at Lysator is up from ~0 to the point where the
other users are starting to complain. :)

Anyway, now I'm back from illness and will finish the introduction of
the new system, getting stable to build/test, auto-cleaning the
exports, monitoring hanged processes and what-not.
-- 
Anders "Quest" Qvist
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~sfarmer