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 over the coals for not getting bits
out fast enough.
We are working on this from a rel-eng standpoint, but advocating for
a bit of discretion on what should be pushed as an update is not
entirely a bad thing. Personally, I would love it if package
maintainers slowed down a bit. But it's not an end solution.
So certainly the leadership, defined as FESCo and FPB, is not in
conflict with the contributor's apparent direction. As far as I can
see, they haven't made a statement either way. If there is a group
that was pushing for something that ran contrary, it was Rel-Eng.
And given that Jesse and I both just said we're going to basically
stop begging people to slow down on updates, I think even that group
is trying to figure out a way to make things better. Hell, that's
partly what this FAD is all about.
If the FAD identifies some tangibles (hardware, etc.) that would help
alleviate some of the time problems, I can tell you that Spot and I
will do our best to procure them. From what I've heard others
describe up until now, it doesn't seem like there's one clear
roadblock in that regard -- just a huge mountain of tasks that our
current systems have to chug through for composing, and no matter how
you slice it, it takes a lot of time and I/O bandwidth.
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