Re: Bits from the release team (freeze time line)
Martin Zobel-Helas <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.ports.arm,gmane.linux.debian.devel.release,gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips |
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Hi, On Sat Dec 28, 2013 at 19:51:21 +0000, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 07:14:25PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 03:28:04PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 02:19:07PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > > However, using words like "known-buggy mips* machines" is just FUD > > > > against the mips*-ports, and plainly inacceptable, so please stop > > > > doing that. (For reference, there is no mipsel machine which has > > > > hardware bugs affecting daily operations. There are two mips machines > > > > which are pre-series and are not as stable as I wish, but as builddadm > > > > I was more occupied recently with arm* machines not stable then with > > > > mips machines not stable. This all doesn't mean I think nothing should > > > > be changed, but please do not FUD against mips* (or any other > > > > architecture).) > > > > > > builddadm does not keep the machines running, DSA does. ball is ancient, > > > > I agree that ball, rem and mayer are indeed ancient. That said despite > > their age, they are about twice faster as armel and armhf build daemons > > for building for example libreoffice or qt4-x11. Does they cause any > > problem from the administration point of view? > > The mipsel machines are working reliably but are probably not replacable if one > dies. They could use more memory and it'd be helpful if they booted from SATA > (so that we can source new disks if/when the current PATA disks die). also, ball and rem currently sit in a a 4U case, which occupies (together with wiggum.debconf.org) 1/3 of the full rack we have at man-da. If we could get better boxes (or replace the machines at all), that would be nice. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas <[email protected]> Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer Debian Listmaster http://about.me/zobel Debian Webmaster GPG Fingerprint: 6B18 5642 8E41 EC89 3D5D BDBB 53B1 AC6D B11B 627B