Suggestion: Continuous mass rebuild

[Dan Horák]

Richard W.M. Jones píše v Ne 29. 07. 2012 v 18:38 +0100: 
> Currently we're doing a mass rebuild about every couple of releases,
> ie. once a year.
> 
> Since Dennis Gilmore has written this rebuild script already, why
> don't we run the script more or less continuously?  Obviously we could
> pace the builds so they happen for each package about once a month and
> don't overload Koji.
> 
> Then we track packages that don't build, say, 3 times in a row, and
> file FTBFS bugs for them and after that prioritize fixing them or kick
> them out of the distro.

please keep in mind that the resources available to secondary arches are
limited and can't undergo the load the mass rebuild generate. They can
follow the normal load of builds coming from primary for rawhide and
updates for 2 released versions, but such peaks are way above the
capacity. What takes 4 days in primary koji with dozens of builders it
takes 2 or 3 weeks in secondaries (ppc, s390) with other work mostly
stopped ...


Dan