Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:39:13 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, "Liam J. Foy" <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org>, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/tools/tools/tinderbox/etc current.rc head.rc update_current.rc update_head.rc Message-ID: <20050722173913.GA20844@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <86irz3qgsi.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <200507201959.j6KJxkJl000803@repoman.freebsd.org> <86hdenx5mg.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050721203934.GC1097@anarion> <200507211726.14034.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1c30f7f77c7adf4e70096cf34ae73e5d@xcllnt.net> <86irz3qgsi.fsf@xps.des.no>
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:25:01PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote.. > Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> writes: > > This change was without warning and without cause. He unilaterally > > decided that the work and effort put in by others was beneath his > > attention and concern by making the commit like this. And if des@ is > > incapable of even the most basic forms of communication that he > > cannot express his predicament or explain his reasons for this > > change and ask for input even after the fact, then he shouldn't even > > be making commits in the first place. > > I'm sorry, Marcel, but you are completely off base. > > The tinderbox is a service I provide to the FreeBSD developers because > I (and many others) feel that it is useful. I have spent a lot of > time and effort developing, maintaining and running it for the past > three or four years with *zero* assistance from anyone except Mike > Tancsa (who hosts the current cluster and has gone above & beyond to > keep it running in the face of hardware failures and my screwups) and > John De Boskey (who hosted the previous cluster until Real Life made > it impossible for him to keep up). Most importantly, I have received > no assistance from the FreeBSD Project, and considerable resistance > from several of its members. Not knowing any of the details: would it be possible to spread the load over multiple machines? Say have one box do the tier 1 stuff, box 2 do the tier 2 or something like that? And it is of course reasonable to have this stuff run on the project's machines, kinda crazy that it takes your $$ etc. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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