On 9/13/2013 3:46 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 07:32:03 +0200 (CEST)
> Harald Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>
>>>>> Could we turn off the periodic building of 1.4.x on various buildslaves?
>>>>> It's still on for at least the two hpux builders and irix.
>>
>> Maybe keep one "old school" RH-derivate like CentoOS or SL. That are
>> the ones most likely to want 1.4.x imho.
> 
> To be clear, I'm not talking about removing machines or config or
> whatever. Right now irix and hpux build the tip of 1.4.x every single
> day, which is a complete waste (the more 'normal' platforms build on
> every gerrit submission instead; those are still around, as far as I
> know). 1.4.x doesn't ever change; if we get another security fix to
> patch 1.4 for, it would presumably go on top of 1.4.15 anyway, not the
> tip of 1.4.x.

And a security fix will not be put into gerrit.  The fix will be applied
to a private repo and merged into the public repo after the fact.

I agree that 1.4 should stop being built on a regular basis.  It should
only be triggered for submissions to Gerrit.

Jeffrey Altman


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