Release engineering sprint, July 2013

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:43:11PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> A noticeable amount of time here will be improved by pending hardware
> upgrades.  Adam spent some sprint time working on the installation of
> new Calxeda systems; we don't know how much those will shave off the
> livefs build phase (currently 52m or so) but it wouldn't be a surprise
> if they removed 20m or so, and the current Panda boards occasionally
> corrupt data which causes extra delays while people debug them.

The Calxeda builders are now deployed and in service, both for package
building and live filesystem building.  My test live filesystem build
ran in 30 minutes.

Thanks to Adam and a cast of several sysadmins for getting this sorted
out.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]