So the release criteria require buildd redundancy. And yet, half the release candidate archs still don't have it. It gets marked in yellow on http://release.debian.org/etch_arch_qualify.html. Well, the one-and-only alpha buildd has been down for apparently ten days and does not respond to ping, and I don't recall seeing anything from the alpha team on debian-release or debian-devel. Please correct me if this is inaccurate. It seems to me that, in a freeze, we should be ruthless about such a situation. We have in the past had serious problems with archs that have suddenly-bogus buildds in the freeze, and this requirement of buildd redundancy was created specifically to avoid this problem. Now we are being bitten by it. Alpha needs to either, it seems to me, get back up to 95% right away, and say why the situation was allowed to coast along for nearly two weeks, or be dropped as a release arch. Or, we could just decide that the release criteria don't really matter, even when the very situations they were designed to prevent come up. Thomas
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