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On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 07:19 +0100, Steve Long wrote: |
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> This guy: http://gentoovm.blogspot.com/ works for vmware according to his |
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> first post here: http://www.vmwhere.net/category/gentoo/ (where he makes |
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> clear he has nothing to do with releng, and that his work is in no way to |
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> be seen as official.) He might be a good guy to rope in? He seems to be |
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> having trouble with hosting and hasn't released since 2006.0 so he'd most |
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> likely welcome the approach, imo. |
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He was on the bug. Also, people seem to forget that we would also very |
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likely have an issue with hosting, too. We do not have unlimited space |
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on our community-donated mirrors. It has always been a constant |
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struggle within Release Engineering to keep our sizes down. This is one |
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of the reasons that we've not undertaken such a task. To be honest, |
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once I get support in catalyst, it'll be much more likely that I'll end |
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up creating these, since I'll be able to share the catalyst caches and |
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such between LiveDVD and VM image builds, so it'll take almost no time |
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to produce the builds. |
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Currently, Release Engineering is quite understaffed. We have lost a |
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few release coordinators between the last release and now. The arch |
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teams are picking up the slack and getting people to fill the roles, but |
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they have to be trained, which means more time spent training and less |
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time spent working, which delays a release fairly significantly. I have |
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no intentions on pulling in more media for us to support when we're |
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having difficulty supporting what we have now. That's just an |
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unfortunate fact of life. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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