[6545] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Move early-linux into proposed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Dec 3 21:59:00 2009
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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I'm not opposed to this idea, but I'd like to come up with some
signage we can deploy in the clusters before we actually turn it on.
Also, removing private workstations is probably good, particularly if
we're changing the meaning of the early-linux cluster. However, if
the private workstations are within IS&T (which they probably are), we
should consider sending mail to the moira contacts explaining what
we're doing, and giving them the opportunity to continue participating
in the early-linux cluster (with the caveat that the machines should
not be their primary workstations and should be able to be reinstalled
at any time).
-Jon
On Dec 3, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Evan Broder wrote:
> Can we move the early-linux cluster into -proposed instead of
> production?
>
> Right now we have a very small handful of machines pulling updates
> from -proposed. Many of that very small handful aren't even regularly
> used, and fewer are cluster machines. I think it would be useful to
> expose -proposed to a wider array of machines, hopefully so that we
> can more effectively catch bugs before they get pushed to production.
> Also, this would allow us to tell users to go check a particular
> machine to see if we've successfully fixed their bug.
>
> You can see the list of machines in early-linux by running `qy -s -f
> machine gmcm '*' early-linux` (I won't spew the output at you).
> Currently there are a handful of private machines that we should
> possibly remove, and only a handful of cluster machines. I think we
> should add to early-linux roughly the set of machines that
> participated in the Debathena Beta deployment (so a few in m12 and a
> few in m56).
>
> This obviously introduces the danger of needing a runaround if we
> incapacitate the machines, but uh...hopefully we can avoid that? In
> any case, it's pretty easy to hit w20, m12, and m56 if we need to.
>
> Opinions?
>
> - Evan
