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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting



Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> > Where human delay did come into play was in getting the xfree86 mess
> > cleaned; in theory it should have taken one or two days, but in
> > practice it took much longer.
> 
> Why not fully eliminate the human factor ? Ubuntu does automated build from
> source only uploads, the package sources are built and signed by a developer,
> autobuilt on all arches, and i don't believe they are individually signed
> after that.

In this case, it was a bug that required human intervention, a package
upload that accidentally would hose a chroot, which required the
chroot to be repaired for each affected buildd.

Thomas



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