[maemo-developers] Autobuilder apt-get problems => failing builds

[From: Jeff Moe]

On Friday 01 January 2010 11:12:47 Ed Bartosh wrote:
> 2010/1/1 Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com>:
> > On Jan 1, 2010, at 15:00, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> >> 2010/1/1 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Attempting to upload a new version of vim to the Fremantle
> >>> auto-builder, I get the following failure:
> >>>
> >>>  
> >>> https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fremantle/vim_7.2-0maemo6/armel.root.l
> >>>og.FAILED.txt
> >>
> >> Should be fixed now:
> >> https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fremantle/vim_7.2-0maemo6/ Thanks for
> >> pointing out to this.
> >>
> >> Somebody's changed sbdmock configuration on the build host. I don't
> >> know why, because it was working just fine before.
> >>
> >> This reminds me aphorisms like 'Too many cooks spoil the broth' or
> >> 'Many commanders sink the ship". I like better Russian one 'Seven
> >> babysitters have a child without eye'. Autobuilder reminds me that
> >> child sometimes.
> >
> > Funny, I was thinking the exact opposite. If more people had access, then
> > more than one person could fix it.
> 
> I doubt that. What I can see is that more people can break it.
> If you need a proof - give everyone root access to that box :)

Starting with me.  :)

Though I must say things seem down an awfully lot and we just sit around 
waiting for someone to fix it. How does Fedora do it? I imagine they have a 
number of people with access.