Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly
Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:47:25AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Why would we need "more total CPU time"? Not even leisner is
> > overloaded at the moment, and it's probably the slowliest machine.
> > (leisner has a different problem, though).
>
> > Hence, please explain why we need "more total CPU time" and when a
> > downtime from a couple of days maximum is a problem.
>
> "Developers accessible machines" are used by human beings which are
> by nature much less patient and much more subject to real life issues
> than build daemons.
>
> The faster a port machine is, the less painful it is to debug a
> problem and so developers are more willing to work on it. Fixing
> the bug sooner given them also more time to work on others bugs
> and reduce the delay caused by the bug.
So you want faster machines and not more machines.
That's a different issue.
While we're at it, we're in need of a fast ARM machine with a
local disk and enough RAM (>=128MB).
> > My question stays: Why?
> >
> > Of course, we could add all machines that get donated to the Debian
> > project, but why should we?
>
> If we are donated machines that are significantly faster than the
> developers machines for the same architecture, I think we should provide
> access to them (unless the machines were affected to another usage, of
> course).
Why not replace the older machines then?
Should Debian develop a hardware zoo of old, superseded and hence unused
machines?
Regards,
Joey
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