[Mageia-dev] Packaging for Mageia

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Friday, January 21, 2011 08:15:59 am Jerome Quelin wrote:
> On 11/01/21 16:03 +0100, Michael scherer wrote:
> > > i guess this'll be mitigated when:
> > > a) more build nodes will be added to bs
> > 
> > Well, we do have a limited rack space at lost oasis so we cannot
> > add much server for the moment, and for now, I think we are planning
> > others stuff with potential server ( and as people will ask it, no, we
> > still do not plan to let people run a buildnode if the sysadmin team is
> > not the only group of people to access to it as admin for security
> > reason ).
> 
> uh? you mean mageia will run with 1 bs node of each type, and that's it?
> 
> > > b) bs will be updated to allow priorities, queue per submitter, etc.
> > > (and i want a pony too)
> > 
> > We do not have it  ( except the pony ), but how should we be distribute
> > build in a fair fashion ? I fear that having this would lead to some
> > frustration ( while first  in, first out is IMHO easy to understand and
> > quite fair most of the time ).
> 
> i don't know. stéphane télétchea wrote on cooker@ about a scheduler he's
> using in his job with lots of fancy features. i guess he'll be able to
> describe them in more details, and why we would want them.
> 
> 
> note to packagers: it's now very easy to throttle in an adaptive way
> (thanks to pascal terjean). just add the following before submitting a
> package:
> 
>     sleep $( HEAD http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/ | perl -nE '/X-BS-Throttle:
> (\d+)/ && print $1' )
> 
> jérôme

Jerome, no complaints, you are great. I wish we would have more packagers like 
you.

-- 
Thomas