* Andreas Barth (aba@not.so.argh.org) wrote: > * Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) [050319 12:35]: > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:20:34AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > > > - at least two buildd administrators > > > > > This allows the buildd administrator to take vacations, etc. > > > This is at odds with what I've heard from some buildd maintainers that > > having multiple buildd maintainers makes it hard to avoid stepping on one > > another's feet, so I wouldn't want to set a requirement like this without > > further discussion. > > Actually, there was some discussion about that in Vancouver :) > > It boils down to more or less having at least two people to be able to > maintain any of the buildds, so that if the primary buildd admin goes on > vacation / is ill / ..., that doesn't put this buildd completly off-line. > In fact, this has already happened in the past, without anybody except > the buildd admins noticing it. It strikes me as rather silly that Debian can't come up with a way for two people to be able to work with a single buildd, either at the same time or not. It would probably require *some* talking/coordination between them but tools could be written to help with that a great deal. Stephen
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