FeaturePresto won't make beta freeze

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 16:10:28 UTC 2008


On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:23:25 +0000
dexter <dex.mbox at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Mon March 3 2008 15:12:21 Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> > This is just a heads up to those that are interested that it doesn't
> > look like we'll be able to get FeaturePresto done in time for Beta
> > freeze.  We haven't moved forward a whole lot from where we were six
> > months ago when we realized that we were going to miss the F8 Beta
> > freeze.  To quickly recap what's done...
> >
> >  * the yum-presto plugin works completely fine and has had no reported
> >    fatal (i.e. yum breaks) bugs in the last six months or so.
> >  * The test server has been generating deltarpms for F7 (i386, x86_64)
> >    and F8 (i386) for the last eight or nine months.  The only problems
> >    we've hit here have been when the master mirror has had problems.
> >    Approximately 200 people are using yum-presto with F8 and have set
> >    their baseurl to the test server.
> >
> > ...and what's not:
> >
> >  * Build-system integration.  I'll be blunt.  I just can't do it.  It's
> >    not so much programming ability (though I'm definitely not at the
> >    buildsys guys' levels), but that I don't have the resources (time,
> >    ability to test on working buildsystem, etc).
> >
> > So I'm going to step back from FeaturePresto.  Build-system integration
> > of presto will require someone who more familiar with the system.
> > Before Beta freeze, I'll push presto-utils-0.5, which will contain a
> > daemon that will take xml-rpc input calls to generate deltarpms, and I'm
> > also going to try to push yum-presto-0.5.  I will continue to maintain
> > the test server as long as my school will pay for it.
> >
> > I want to thank Jeremy, Warren, Luke and Mike for the time they've spent
> > helping me with all this.  If there was ever a case of pearls before
> > swine, this was probably it.
> >
> > Jonathan
> 
> Well its a real sad state of affairs that the fedora decision makers can't see 
> the value in reducing everyones network footprint by default. I guess its 
> just not sexy enuff.

Decision makers can't make people code faster.  If you think it's that
sexy, offer to help code around the buildsys integration issues.

josh




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