I think this is a brilliant idea. I think that "keep ISOs buildable" would have a wonderful impact on everyone's velocity and quality. Cheers, Rick <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Scott Kitterman <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@kitterman.com">ubuntu@kitterman.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I won't be at UDS, so if this is of interest to someone, I would really like it if someone who is would take the ball and run with it. Currently build sequence on the buildds is determined (primarily) by a combination of pocket and component: <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/BuildScores" target="_blank">https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/BuildScores</a> In my opinion, one of the major reasons to prioritize builds is to help keep ISOs buildable. During non-freeze periods it is not at all rare for flavors built out of Universe to go days without a successful image build on some architectures due to archive skew. I think we should change the scoring model in Launchpad (yes, this would be an LP change, but I think it should be driven by Ubuntu) to include a seeded/unseeded element as well. This would give us more images available for testing on a regular basis without having to get special respins. This could either be done by dropping the current component based score changes and substituting a seeded/unseeded differential or by adding an additional score differential for seeded-in-ubuntu packages on top of the existing model. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div>