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

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2010/1/1 Jeff Moe <moe at blagblagblag.org>:
> 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.
>
OK, let's look at this particular case. Autobuilder was broken for
about 15 hours. There were about 40 packages uploaded and failed
during that time. Before that change builder was working fine.

I really doubt that it would be better to have doesns of people to
break this than 1-2 to fix. Even if those who can breake it could fix
it.
Anyway it was not working for a long time and people became confused.
And now I'm restarting all those 40 builds manually.

-- 
BR,
Ed