F21 schedule: what would you do with more time?

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 23.8.2013 10:24, Peter Robinson napsal(a):
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Matthew Miller 
> <mattdm at fedoraproject.org <mailto:mattdm at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:08:18PM +0800, Christopher Meng wrote:
>     > > What things we do _now_ could be
>     > > improved with the investment of some effort?
>     > Perl rebuild always take a lot of time, and as a result it will
>     affect
>     > the mass rebuild.
>
>     Apparently less so with all the new ARM builders, right? Is this
>     something
>     you're saying could be improved, or is it just something we always
>     need to
>     budget time for?
>
>
> The perl upgrade process is some what manual and there's a whole bunch 
> of circular dependencies that cause/require a bunch of manual 
> bootstrapping of certain packages so the perl mass rebuild is some 
> what different to a standard all in mass rebuild.
>
> Peter
>
>

The same applies for Ruby. It is definitely not just "fire the rebuild 
and forget". During the process, there is typically need to update some 
packages to be compatible with latest release, some were FTBFS already 
before, some others need bootstrap due to circular dependencies.


Vít
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