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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