[Mageia-dev] Packaging for Mageia

[Pascal Terjan]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 15:03, Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:59:52AM +0100, Jerome Quelin wrote:
>> On 11/01/20 21:33 +0100, Erwan Velu wrote:
>> > PS: just pray not to fall into the jquelin massive submits :D
>>
>> sorry, i throttled a bit more between my packages.
>> in fact, my throttling is ok except when people submit big packages! :-)
>>
>> 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 ).
>
>> 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 ).

No frustration if the submitter can request low priority himself. For
massive rebuild, you can then submit everything but other people (or
your own other packages) don't have to wait.