On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:54:34PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > >FWIW, our experiences with Ubuntu shows that having fast dinstall > >cycles is very helpful. You can sit and codevelop with people > >uploading to the archive as you go and letting other people in on what > >you are doing rather than having private repositories or similar > >solutions. It's a variant of the «release often, release early» > >principle. > > > >The downside of doing this is the extra load on the autobuilder > >network, so Debian might not want to do it because of that. > > It might affect the mirrors, too...
It would only affect the mirrors if they polled (or were pushed) more frequently; that frequency could remain the same even though packages were installed more frequently. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]