On Fri, 16 Aug 2019, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:39:22 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Alexander Wirt writes ("Re: salsa.debian.org partially down"): > > > It is already recovered. We will investigate where we can extend the > > > ressources. But some misusages (like requesting >1300 merge requests via > > > API > > > on a big project, that in consequence run >1300 ci jobs, that...) can't be > > > solved regardless on how many resources we add. > > Thanks for the reports from you and Bastian. Thanks also for having > > the energy and effort to deal with this kind of thing. It's annoying > > when a thing you're responsible for breaks because of foolish user > > action, and then you have to scramble to fix it. > > From what I know, this what not a "foolish user action" but an action > by a dedicated maintainer who enabled salsa-ci for all packages > ("projects") of a specific team; so they used a service advertised by > the salsa and salsa-ci teams. That this service doesn't work as > advertised or at least doesn't work for the amount of packages a > medium-sized team might have is deplorable and needs some action but > I don't see any reason for calling this action itself foolish.
All our services have somewhat limited ressources and need to work for all developers. To be honest: I do expect from everyone, using any of our (debian) services, to think before doing things like that. Be it sending a few thousand mails to our mailing lists, creating a few thousand jobs on salsa, uploading a few thousand packages, creating a few thousand bugs. Alex
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