On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Julian Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > Build Farm Improvements > ======================= > > This is currently going well, we have a few initiatives ongoing: > > Making build uploads asynchronous. > ---------------------------------- ... > Parallel scans of slaves. > ------------------------- ... > Better failure detection. > ------------------------- ... > Software Center > =============== ... > Derived Distributions > ===================== ... > UI mockups and user testing. > ---------------------------- ... > Moving server scripts to the job system. > ---------------------------------------- ... > Booby-Traps! > ============ > > Soyuz has a lot of very old bugs that we've traditionally only looked at once > they've caused havoc in production. Francis likes to call these booby-trap > bugs and while we've not had a leg blown off yet, I've pulled shrapnel from > places I don't want to talk about. This approach is not healthy for our > production status, so we're embarking on a way of slotting in fixes for these > while doing our normal feature developments. Hopefully we'll see more long- > term stability from Soyuz by the end of the year. >
Nice description :D Will be great to see a world where Soyuz just runs smoothly all the time. > Thanks for reading this far. If you know what "Soyuz" means in Russian I hope > you found the subject of this email entertaining. Thanks for sending out the update! jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
