[Mageia-dev] Packaging for Mageia

Sat Jan 22 15:37:56 CET 2011

On Friday, January 21, 2011 08:15:59 am Jerome Quelin wrote:
+> On 11/01/21 16:03 +0100, Michael scherer wrote:
+> > > 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 ).
+> 
+> uh? you mean mageia will run with 1 bs node of each type, and that's it?
+> 
+> > > 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 ).
+> 
+> i don't know. stéphane télétchea wrote on cooker@ about a scheduler he's
+> using in his job with lots of fancy features. i guess he'll be able to
+> describe them in more details, and why we would want them.
+> 
+> 
+> note to packagers: it's now very easy to throttle in an adaptive way
+> (thanks to pascal terjean). just add the following before submitting a
+> package:
+> 
+>     sleep $( HEAD http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ | perl -nE '/X-BS-Throttle:
+> (\d+)/ && print $1' )
+> 
+> jérôme
+
+Jerome, no complaints, you are great. I wish we would have more packagers like 
+you.
+
+-- 
+Thomas
+