On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:44:50PM -0700, Mike Sullivan wrote: > My concerns are failed builds and now having to coordinate two putbacks > (and that not involving me having to wake up at 3am to copy someones tar > file :).
We could always require that the RTI not be approved until the tarballs are in place. And the tarballs can always be put in place long before the putback happens, just to be ready. SMA will still have to keep their tarball in the gate, or give up on their craptastic method of updating the tarball in place. As for potential network outages, we can create a mechanism to pre-download the tarballs and point the build at a cache directory instead of downloading on each build. That would also allow multiple copies of the gate to share the disk space and download time (and cost) associated with the tarballs, which is likely a huge win, on the balance, for everyone. I think getting that working is probably worth pushing out the target build, if it can't be done in that time, but that's probably more up to the tech lead and whatever steam valve you happen to be facing. :) Danek
