On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:10:12PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> > All supported platforms must have kernels built from the Fedora
> > kernel SRPM and enabled by default in the spec file. Each kernel must
> > be built in a timely manner for every SRPM upload.
>
> What exactly is timely? What margin is acceptable? Is this only
> for kernel or does this apply to any package with a
> much-longer-than-average build time? What would constitute being in
> that class? Or should the class be critical-path packages?
> Something else?
The kernel's kind of a special case due to the relatively frequent
security updates. The exact nature of what kind of speed is required
would probably need to be discussed with the kernel team.
It was, on the kernel list:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2012-March/003702.html
(Max build time for the kernel: 4 hours).
josh