Phased updater and weekends

[Brian Murray]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 01:46:56PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> After some quick chat, I'd like to propose that we extend the
> policy to not release SRUs from Fri-Sun to the phased updates
> and not phase them to a 100% at those times.
> 
> Cautious users configure their systems to not install phased updates,
> so they will only see new updates once they reach 100% and that
> happening on weekends is not particularly helpful.
> 
> I propose that essentially when the phased-updater is started
> between
> 
>     Friday 00:00 UTC and Monday 12:00 UTC
> 
> that it never increments the value to 100.
> 
> The second aspect of the weekend question is whether to increment
> the phased update percentage at all, that is should people using
> the defaults be exposed to new updates over the weekend?

An interesting side effect of not incrementing the phased update
percentage over the weekend is that it would allow community SRU team
members to release packages to -updates on the weekend - something which
is currently prohibited by policy. I think this would be valuable as I
have more spare time on weekends, he said while sending an email on a
weeknight. ;-)

Cheers,
--
Brian