[mirror-admin] Release lead time

[Dennis Gilmore]

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El Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:43:21 +0100
Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> escribió:
> Hi Dennis,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 02:20:32PM +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
> > On 01/03/2013 09:18 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > > With the raft of delays we have had with Fedora 18 people have
> > > been looking at options that involve us not releasing on Tuesdays
> > > as we always have.  I said that we cant change up how we stage
> > > everything and the windows we give mirrors to stage content
> > > before opening up the flood gates of the release.
> 
> you want to pull the release date to Monday? I would suggest not to,
> as while the syncs are done on the weekend any issues will usually be
> seen on Monday morning and having another 24h to fix things is a good
> thing.

What was wanted was to have the go/no decision on Monday and release on
Thursday. which cut down syncing to Tuesday and Wednesday.

> I've seen this happen to me, and I was then happy to have time to find
> a fast mirror to resync from on Monday.
> 
> Having said that - the latest releases had been rather smoothly
> syncing as the packages were not re-signed in the last minute and so
> the hardlink option to rsync made the final syncs a non-issue. Only
> the iso bits used really bandwidth and new space, so we should be more
> flexible than several releases back, when the whole package set had to
> be re-synced.
> 
> Also there are so many mirrors nowadays that if a couple don't make it
> in time it will not be an issue with the release itself. We've had
> smooth releases in general for several versions now. So, IMHO we
> shouldn't mind if you would narrow the timeframes.

Things have been pretty smooth and I dont want to upset that.  there is
still some mirrors not tiering correctly and they dont get any content
until the bits are flipped and the release is public.

Dennis
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