Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:31:12AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:58:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > One of the problems with this is that you wouldn't benefit from the
> > "hints" the release team prepares for britney; which might screw you
> > over completely. OTOH, dealing with smaller numbers of architectures is
> > easier, so maybe some of the existing automation would be more
> > effective; and maybe the other britney features we planned at the
> > meeting will make this irrelevant anyway.
>
> This is definitely a real problem. Architectures which stay very close
> to up-to-date might be able to take advantage of hints; I don't know
> how often that would work in practice. Maybe it would motivate
> additional work on the automation.
Perhaps britney could be enhanced such that when a hint is carried out by the
RM's, a notification mail is sent out to a subscriber list notifying them of
the hint. This would allow for multiple subtestings to choose wheter or not
they want to do the same thing.
- David Nusinow
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