Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

[Paul W. Frields]

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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