On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:07:52AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Anyway, as far as getting something done, I would suggest opening an RT > > ticket and documenting in that ticket: > [...]
> I did that now, thanks. > I combined two sets of information in it - the specific details about this > sparc machine that I sent to the mailing list, and general information about > the location which I had already provided to DSA in an offer to host that > other machine that they put out a few years ago. Looks good to me, thanks! > > If DSA has to go fishing for these details, chances are good that they > > /won't/ do so, because there are always fires going on that will take > > priority. > I appreciate you being courteous to spell this out, but it's a problem in > itself if one has to make these justifications... If as you say that our > only sparc buildd is MIA for two weeks and not fixed yet, what greater fire > is there, taking priority thoughout this time? Problems worse than two-week > downtimes should probably make us all pretty scared... Uh, auric is not the only sparc buildd, it's just the only one configured for building oldstable-security (apparently). spontini is still up and building just fine for other suites, so if and when DSA decides they need to go for plan B wrt auric's downtime, getting oldstable-security set up on spontini would still be a quicker fix than provisioning a whole new buildd from scratch. As for problems worse than a two-week downtime, well, there's the 1.5-month downtime of goedel (alpha buildd redundancy), the one-month downtime of four of the arm buildds because of what may be an incompatibility between their kernel and sid's glibc, the three-day downtime of the only running i386 buildd... though when I mentioned fires, I was including auric itself in that reckoning. ;) Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
