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Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?



On 13-Mar-06, 17:11 (CST), Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> wrote: 
> Brr, there was no such decision, so no need to inform anything anywhere.
> 
> It was more a "try to not grow that fast for now, and try to remove
> stuff when you add new things". That was after the archive growing
> superfast in a very short timeframe, due to some multiple uploads of big
> packages in a row.

Such a decision is a debian level policy decision that should be
discussed with the developers, not something that the ftpmasters should
be unilaterally implementing[1].

At minimum, there should *absolutely* be a message to d-d-a. It
doesn't have to be a dissertation, just a quick "Because of the recent
rapid growth in the repository size, we're temporarily throttling NEW
processing to give the mirrors a chance to catch up."

Steve

[1] Unless the repo is simply out of disk space, in which case you
should also be making an announcement and asking for help.

-- 
Steve Greenland
    The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
    world.       -- seen on the net



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