Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-08 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Sorry, was quite busy with other stuff over the past few days and didn't get around to answer this On 03.06.2009 02:15, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:08:15AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: It IMHO shows a big and more and more pressing problem in Fedora:

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-08 Thread Gianluca Sforna
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Thorsten Leemhuisfed...@leemhuis.info wrote: Not to forget Jesse (as rel-eng lead in a quite important position) and his quest to reduce the number of updates (which he gave up -- see earlier this thread), FTR, he actually said I've all *but* given up on my

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-04 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 06/03/2009 07:48 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: Not necessarily. I don't see why the Fedora Project couldn't qualify as a Sponsored Participant on Internet2 [1]. In fact, Red Hat is already connected in Raleigh. I think this is because they're technically on NC State University. ~spot --

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-04 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Tom \spot\ Callaway wrote: On 06/03/2009 07:48 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: Not necessarily. I don't see why the Fedora Project couldn't qualify as a Sponsored Participant on Internet2 [1]. In fact, Red Hat is already connected in Raleigh. I think this is because they're

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-04 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:56:34AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Tom \spot\ Callaway wrote: On 06/03/2009 07:48 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: Not necessarily. I don't see why the Fedora Project couldn't qualify as a Sponsored Participant on Internet2 [1]. In fact, Red Hat is

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-04 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 19:29 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: Seeking clarification... From my perspective, marketing machine has a derogatory tone to it. Is that the intended tone? If, yes, why? If no, never mind :) There was no derogatory tone intended. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom²

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-03 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 02.06.2009 22:30, Jesse Keating wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 21:30 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: but if we get RC with the final name transferred to the mirrors ahead of time then they can be updated relative quickly as well, as only a few bit change. We don't do this as it tends to

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Kevin Kofler, Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:29:35 +0200: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers http://list.gmane.org/fedora-test-l...@redhat.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-03 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 08:15:32PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: We are facing some real limitations on our turn around time for things at the moment and they are only going to get worse as we have newer releases that will get the delta rpms. At the same time, the same people are getting raked

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-03 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:55:48AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 08:15:32PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: We are facing some real limitations on our turn around time for things at the moment and they are only going to get worse as we have newer releases that will get the

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-03 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 06/03/2009 02:38 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 06/03/2009 09:01 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: Oh, and time. Always need time. If you or spot could procure time, let me know ;) Man, if I knew how to do that, I'd be a lot wealthier than I am now. ;) Extend the day to 36 hours

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Lumens
It might have helped to find the problem earlier -- I for example got the impression that a lot of people had problems with the storage rewrite and thus aborted their tests with Alpha or Beta. There was no storage rewrite in the Alpha, so this isn't the case there. For the beta, you are

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-03 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jesse Keating (jkeat...@redhat.com) said: On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:49 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: And the optimization there is fairly well known. We need to read in and not change the prestodelta file. It's on my short-ish createrepo list. Hrm, bill thought it was something on the mash

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-03 Thread Seth Vidal
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote: Jesse Keating (jkeat...@redhat.com) said: On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:49 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: And the optimization there is fairly well known. We need to read in and not change the prestodelta file. It's on my short-ish createrepo list. Hrm,

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-03 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 06:45:07PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 06/01/2009 06:45 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: If we had I2 in PHX this would get a lot faster. We just need to hold some classes and get the PHX datacenter certified as a University. ;) Not necessarily. I don't see why the

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 01.06.2009 20:14, Jesse Keating wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 19:49 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 29.05.2009 22:57, Jesse Keating wrote: Thx for your reply and sorry, I didn't found time to answer earlier. Some more comments: [...] - how about reducing the number or zero day updates

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 01.06.2009 21:50, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 19:49 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: - should we set an way earlier freezes date for things like anaconda, kernel, isolinux, grub and other crucial pieces to make sure they are in better shape a bit earlier and thus are less

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Björn Persson
Jesse Keating wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 20:56 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: Do you hard link the new release files to the ones identical in rawhide so that rsync doesn't have to transfer them to places mirroring rawhide? Yes and no. We do use hardlinks, however the mechanism that gets

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Matt Domsch wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:03:04PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: I'm getting out of my ken here, but could this be done in stages with I2 connected hosts getting the bits early/first and then moving on to others? We need to move ~130GB to each of ~230 mirrors, in about 4

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Matthew Woehlke mw_tr...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Matt Domsch wrote: What about dropping hierarchical mirroring altogether? Why hasn't someone developed a distributed (i.e. bittorrent-like) system for mass mirroring? :-) -- Matthew Please do not quote

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Björn Persson wrote: A program similar to Jigdo could speed this up. Transfer only the RPM packages (taking advantage of hard links) and information on what packages are in each ISO image, and then recreate the ISO images at the destination. That way each package would only be

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Matthew Woehlke wrote: What about dropping hierarchical mirroring altogether? Why hasn't someone developed a distributed (i.e. bittorrent-like) system for mass mirroring? :-) Already discussed[1][2] on the fedora-test-list. [1]

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 21:30 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: but if we get RC with the final name transferred to the mirrors ahead of time then they can be updated relative quickly as well, as only a few bit change. We don't do this as it tends to lead to leaks, and confusion as to whether the

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 21:12 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: It might have helped to find the problem earlier -- I for example got the impression that a lot of people had problems with the storage rewrite and thus aborted their tests with Alpha or Beta. An earlier freeze would have just

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jesse Keating wrote: An earlier freeze would have just frozen the work unfinished. The rewrite was a massive undertaking and we knew it was going to take longer than the release cycle to finish. Freezing earlier wouldn't have helped. Then it should have been done in a work branch and

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Woehlke wrote: It's too bad fedora-test-list doesn't seem to be on gmane (or isn't named obviously; gmane.org is being too slow for me to ask about the mail address). gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:08:15AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: It IMHO shows a big and more and more pressing problem in Fedora: Packagers and leadership are not working towards the same direction. The best solution for that is to change the leadership. :-) So don't vote

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:10:14AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jesse Keating wrote: An earlier freeze would have just frozen the work unfinished. The rewrite was a massive undertaking and we knew it was going to take longer than the release cycle to finish. Freezing earlier wouldn't have

Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-05-29 Thread Jesse Keating
We're announcing a Fedora Activity day coming up very very soon (apologies for the short notice). This activity day is for maintainers, QA, and release engineering folks to meet and discuss ongoing issues with the Fedora Development Cycle and to create a proposal on how to fix many of the issues.

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-05-29 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 16:43 -0500, Adam Miller wrote: On the wiki page is says that the Budget will be used for certain attendees Flights, Hotel, Transportation to/from airport/hotel/office/food I was just curious how that list of attendees who's bill will be taken care of is/was decided upon?

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-05-29 Thread inode0
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: We're announcing a Fedora Activity day coming up very very soon (apologies for the short notice).  This activity day is for maintainers, QA, and release engineering folks to meet and discuss ongoing issues with the