Re: What about Woody?
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:23:51PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> > I suspect that the very last NMUs are going up, the images are being
> > readied and press-statements released: I would expect within the next 3
> > days.
>
> What makes you say all this? On 5/1 or so, AJT announced that woody was
> all set, and that the only thing holding up the release was the lack of
> a build infrastructure for the security team. There has since been no
> public announcement regarding the status of such an infrastructure. It
> may well take them some time to get the new system up and running.
>
> Unfortunately, this problem didn't receive widespread attention until it
> was too late to get it addressed in time for the release. Part of this
> actually my fault, as I was previously tasked with implementing such a
> build infrastructure. However, my efforts met with some tough
> resistance by certain members of the sysadmin team who didn't like a
> particular component of the software that the security team was used to
> using to create builds. But nobody was willing to provide a
> replacement, and I didn't have time to create one myself, and this issue
> got ignored for far too long.
Fair enough I am wrong. I had seen the reports about the security
updates problem but was unaware of the size of the problem.
I'm sorry if I misled anyone.
Matthew
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