reviving Fedora Legacy

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Oct 16 04:53:44 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 10:47 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:25 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > 
> > [And yes, you are going to need to deal with infrastructure. Disk
> > space, cpu cycles, memory and power is not 'cheap' as much as people
> > think it is. Extra build boxes will be needed, extra disk space to
> > store stuff, and extra cpu cycles as Fedora's current infrastructure
> > is built on the assumption that it only needs to deal with X releases
> > for Y time. Adding to X and Y means more equipment needed. It will
> > also mean that someone's on the team are going ot have to focus on the
> > infrastructure problems as that addition also increases the number of
> > people needed to watch builds, etc.
> 
> along with infrastructure, you need a release engineer.
I guess, you will apply the same rationale when EPEL6 comes out?

Ralf






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