Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:23:06 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, 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: <42E1398A.3000104@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050722173913.GA20844@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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> <20050722173913.GA20844@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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. > I'd be happy to put a machine into service to help with the load. Scott
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