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Date:      Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:39:13 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, "Liam J. Foy" <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org>, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/tools/tools/tinderbox/etc current.rc head.rc update_current.rc update_head.rc
Message-ID:  <20050722173913.GA20844@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <86irz3qgsi.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <200507201959.j6KJxkJl000803@repoman.freebsd.org> <86hdenx5mg.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050721203934.GC1097@anarion> <200507211726.14034.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1c30f7f77c7adf4e70096cf34ae73e5d@xcllnt.net> <86irz3qgsi.fsf@xps.des.no>

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On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:25:01PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote..
> Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes:
> > This change was without warning and without cause. He unilaterally
> > decided that the work and effort put in by others was beneath his
> > attention and concern by making the commit like this. And if des@ is
> > incapable of even the most basic forms of communication that he
> > cannot express his predicament or explain his reasons for this
> > change and ask for input even after the fact, then he shouldn't even
> > be making commits in the first place.
> 
> I'm sorry, Marcel, but you are completely off base.
> 
> The tinderbox is a service I provide to the FreeBSD developers because
> I (and many others) feel that it is useful.  I have spent a lot of
> time and effort developing, maintaining and running it for the past
> three or four years with *zero* assistance from anyone except Mike
> Tancsa (who hosts the current cluster and has gone above & beyond to
> keep it running in the face of hardware failures and my screwups) and
> John De Boskey (who hosted the previous cluster until Real Life made
> it impossible for him to keep up).  Most importantly, I have received
> no assistance from the FreeBSD Project, and considerable resistance
> from several of its members.

Not knowing any of the details:  would it be possible to spread the load
over multiple machines?  Say have one box do the tier 1 stuff, box 2
do the tier 2 or something like that?

And it is of course reasonable to have this stuff run on the project's
machines, kinda crazy that it takes your $$ etc.

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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