Release engineering sprint, July 2013

[Tim Gardner]

On 08/08/2013 08:45 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Saucy armhf kernel builds dropped from 18 hours to approx 5. I'm liking
that trend.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com