Re: Bits from the release team (freeze time line)
Hi,
On Sat Dec 28, 2013 at 19:51:21 +0000, Luca Filipozzi wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 07:14:25PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 03:28:04PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 02:19:07PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > > However, using words like "known-buggy mips* machines" is just FUD
> > > > against the mips*-ports, and plainly inacceptable, so please stop
> > > > doing that. (For reference, there is no mipsel machine which has
> > > > hardware bugs affecting daily operations. There are two mips machines
> > > > which are pre-series and are not as stable as I wish, but as builddadm
> > > > I was more occupied recently with arm* machines not stable then with
> > > > mips machines not stable. This all doesn't mean I think nothing should
> > > > be changed, but please do not FUD against mips* (or any other
> > > > architecture).)
> > >
> > > builddadm does not keep the machines running, DSA does. ball is ancient,
> >
> > I agree that ball, rem and mayer are indeed ancient. That said despite
> > their age, they are about twice faster as armel and armhf build daemons
> > for building for example libreoffice or qt4-x11. Does they cause any
> > problem from the administration point of view?
>
> The mipsel machines are working reliably but are probably not replacable if one
> dies. They could use more memory and it'd be helpful if they booted from SATA
> (so that we can source new disks if/when the current PATA disks die).
also, ball and rem currently sit in a a 4U case, which occupies
(together with wiggum.debconf.org) 1/3 of the full rack we have at
man-da. If we could get better boxes (or replace the machines at all),
that would be nice.
Cheers,
Martin
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