Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:01:18 +0100 From: Pawel Biernacki <pawel.biernacki@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@icloud.com>, Walter Hop <freebsd@spam.lifeforms.nl> Subject: Re: Proposal Message-ID: <CAA3htvtFGU=-KYrpVpeJjd46QS7=em4n7qROqsY3V3r3Bc823w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10 April 2014 08:09, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > Pawel Biernacki <pawel.biernacki@gmail.com> writes: >> If you want to make an excuse that a build took a long time - it's >> really a poor one. If the build cluster is too slow then project need >> to acquire a new one. > > The freebsd-update build is not a normal make buildworld or make > release, it's much more complicated than that. > So you're telling me that nothing can be done about it? >> Many of us had very hard time during last 48 hours. I know that when >> you fill responsible for something you want to do as much as you can, >> but you need to sleep, eat, etc.. If the whole process is to >> overwhelming for one person maybe it's time to think about extending >> the SO team or reorganising the process of preparing patched releases? >> If there is a need of hands, manpower or so why not ask the community >> to help? > > Did you read the part where I said this is mostly single-threaded? > Yes, but you also wrote: > The best you can hope for is to have someone relieve > you while you eat and sleep. And I don't understand why all of those things need to be single-threaded, since you even mention asking someone from clusteradm@ to help: > Once the builds were ready to go, he moved into a phase where everything > had to happen more or less simultaneously: commit the patches, finalize > the advisory (which contains revision numbers and timestamps), sign it, > then commit the advisory and the patch to the doc tree, update the > relevant portions of the web site, wait for them to propagate (or grab a > passing member of clusteradm@ and have them push it through manually), > and finally mail out the advisory. --=20 One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die= .
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