On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 05:14:17AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:44:55AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Do you want a Simple example ? For almost 4 or 5 months (if not more) > > there is no Alpha machine available to developers, one being restricted, > > the other in lock down, waiting for a setup I guess (<-- did you remark > > the I guess ? I mean I don't know what's going on, and nobody knows > > afaict). The "problem" is, I'm now helping packaging the glibc, and we > > have a couple of alpha-only bugs. Things really stupid like headers > > problems, that would almost take a full minute to be fixed. BUt that bug > > fix is pending james, Ryan or a local admin work (again I've to guess), > > and nothing is coming, neither explanation on why no alpha machine is > > accessible, nor why it takes so long, nor an ETA. > > [...] > > > I understand they cannot communicate about _everything_. But a > > downtime like that _is_ worth communicating. > > I'm not sure what you're asking to be communicated. The following of the mail looks perfect to me, I would really have liked to have a place where I could have read that in the first place. db.d.o/machines.cgi does not lists that. > https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi correctly documents the status of escher > as 'lock down', and yes, this status is unchanged for many months because of > the lack of a kernel image for alpha that includes the fix for the last > security hole. > > It's been suggested that the local admin might find the time to work on this > subsequent to the relocation (the same relocation that caused the alpha > buildd outage -- goedel and escher are hosted together). But it would be > premature to plan around that, currently escher is not just locked down, it > doesn't respond to pings at all. > > I plan to see what I can do to help on this if it remains unresolved, but > not until post-etch... thanks for this information. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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