Quantity of Digest Issues

Allen Kistler an037-ooai8 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 29 05:23:36 UTC 2010


Robert C. Lightfoot wrote:
> Dear Testing Community:
>      I am new to Fedora Testing so this may be a newbie or repeat 
> question and if so I apologize.
>      I was under the impression that the Test-Digest was a daily 
> mailing.  Is any one else puzzled or concerned like I am about receiving 
> 4 or 5 digests on some days.
>       If each had 12 or 20 topics I could see the need to split them up, 
> but the count is 4-1-4-3 for issues 62-65 all with an issue date of 
> 2010-01-27 for example.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Bob Lightfooot
> 
> P.S. - Just curious if anyone can shed light on why and when digests are 
> generated.

Digests are mailed *at*least* once per day.  RH used to do it at noon
US/Eastern.  The new Fedora servers do it at 6am US/Arizona.

When the content for any digest volume reaches 64k, it's mailed, no
matter how soon or how often.


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