[Mageia-dev] Packaging for Mageia

Fri Jan 21 16:56:01 CET 2011

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 15:03, Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:59:52AM +0100, Jerome Quelin wrote:
+>> On 11/01/20 21:33 +0100, Erwan Velu wrote:
+>> > PS: just pray not to fall into the jquelin massive submits :D
+>>
+>> sorry, i throttled a bit more between my packages.
+>> in fact, my throttling is ok except when people submit big packages! :-)
+>>
+>> i guess this'll be mitigated when:
+>> a) more build nodes will be added to bs
+>
+> Well, we do have a limited rack space at lost oasis so we cannot
+> add much server for the moment, and for now, I think we are planning
+> others stuff with potential server ( and as people will ask it, no, we still do not
+> plan to let people run a buildnode if the sysadmin team is not the only group
+> of people to access to it as admin for security reason ).
+>
+>> b) bs will be updated to allow priorities, queue per submitter, etc.
+>> (and i want a pony too)
+>
+> We do not have it  ( except the pony ), but how should we be distribute build
+> in a fair fashion ? I fear that having this would lead to some frustration ( while
+> first  in, first out is IMHO easy to understand and quite fair most of the time ).
+
+No frustration if the submitter can request low priority himself. For
+massive rebuild, you can then submit everything but other people (or
+your own other packages) don't have to wait.
+