Mass rebuild starting monday Feb 7

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Sun Feb 6 19:46:51 UTC 2011


On 02/04/2011 10:00 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> for gcc-4.6, xz compression changes, and to a lesser extent we will be doing a
> mass rebuild starting monday. it will be done in a side tag with a lower than
> normal priority so that you can still submit builds and not have to wait for
> the mass rebuild to finish. we will then tag into  rawhide the builds after
> unless you do a build in the meantime
>
>
> Please note that mass branching will be occuring soon after the mass rebuild
> as the Alpha freeze is 2011-02-15
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Dennis and the rest of rel eng
>

Whoa.

Can we give more notice than to post an announcement during the weekend 
that something is happening on Monday?

Also, per http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mass_Rebuild_SOP how can people 
opt out?  What is the cutoff date after which packages don't need a rebuild?


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