Core and Extras maintainers coordination

[seth vidal]

> I am quite surprised to having seen him announcing a downtime for a
> weekend, but the system not having come up again since then.

We had hoped it would be shorter. But b/c of some threading problems and
then some other issues that came up - it just couldn't happen as
quickly.


> I would have expected the "buildsystem" having undergone sufficient
> testing to provide a "nearly smooth" transition, before somebody would
> want to make such an announcement.

Well you're welcome to provide more machines and more people to do this
testing with. As it stood it was a handful of us doing the testing and
really only Dan doing bugfixes.


> Now, I'd propose to set Seth and Dan (and who else might be involved) a
> deadline (E.g. Monday morning). If they can bring the system up in
> reasonable fashion, fine, I'll be amongst the first to congratulate,
> then.

I'd love for all sorts of things to happen but it may not all occur.
Also I'd like to add that I was away from any meaningful networks all
week at OLS and unable to spend nearly as much time as I might have
otherwise. 



> If not, I would propose to back up to the old "buildsystem" and to give
> them more time to bring up the new buildsystem without being
> unnecessarily pressured.

Easier said than done. Moreover we don't have any additional
buildsystems to test this on so how exactly we do that, I don't know.

Right now we're looking pretty good for the buildsystem being online
this week. There looks like there is a problem with multiple cvs
checkouts from the same system right now. I'm not sure that is a
buildsystem issue or a cvs issue. Either way a bunch of builds will need
to be resubmitted.

-sv