Release Engineering Meeting Recap from Monday 16-APR-07
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Apr 17 08:14:15 UTC 2007
On 17.04.2007 09:42, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 08:22:44AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 17.04.2007 07:48, Dave Jones wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:58:52AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>>> 1. In the future we should consider a mass rebuild of all packages
>>>>> around, but no later than test2
>>> Taking a look at the packages in my f7 mirror, I spot 52 packages
>>> that still have a .fc6 tag, none of which look particularly
>>> "omg, we have to rebuild this". There are also 713 with no %{dist} tag
>>> which include some which we definitly have rebuilt, so it's harder
>>> to figure out which of those got updated and which didn't.
>> Some numbers:
>> $ echo $((4073-1206))
>> 2867
>> IOW: 1206 out of 4073 source packages were not rebuild in devel (both
>> core and extras) between release of FC6 and now.
>
> But that's by choice and now what the usual Fedora policy was until
> now.
There is no "policy" afaik. The maintainer simply decided what to do if
no mass-rebuild was announced. There were for example mass rebuilds
performed in FC6 and FE6.
> Here is the historical data, that shows that we've been doing
> effectively full rebuilds ever until now. [...]
Just a heads up for the readers (as it's not obvious in the first
sight): The data from Axel is for Core only afaics, my data included Extras.
CU
thl
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