F8 postmortem

[Mike McGrath]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> Here are a few thoughts on the F8 release, from the mirror manager
> perspective. :-)
>
>
> Handoff from rel-eng to IS to put on masters worked great, all the
> bits were landed by Monday morning.
>
> Content on the masters wasn't hardlinked at first, which caused some
> churn and unnecessary downloading.  A tree that was hardlinked from rawhide,
> carrying only i386 and x86_64, would have downloaded only 12GB instead
> of 109GB for the full unhardlinked tree.  Let's be sure the tree is hardlinked.
>
> Permissions on dirs/files on the mirror should be revisited.
> All directories should be 0750 and files should be 0640 before the
> bitflip, to prevent leaks. vsftpd will serve a file with a known name
> and perms 0644 even if the directory or one above it is 0750.  Apache
> won't.  Let's be sure to use these permissions.
>
> Release day bitflip was 30 minutes later than expected, which caused
> churn for our mirroradmins.  Can this be a scheduled cronjob?
>   

Additionally, we need to flip the bit before we release it on the website.

    -Mike