[PKG-Openstack-devel] ongoing OpenStack packaging in Debian

Thomas Goirand zigo at debian.org
Wed Mar 1 15:56:57 UTC 2017


On 02/28/2017 12:28 AM, Allison Randal wrote:
>>> Also, sometimes, this whole process can be quite slow. The patch builds
>>> 3 times before it lands, which can take a long time if the gate is under
>>> heavy usage. It might only take 10 minutes for a change to get into the
>>> gate, but take an entire day to get the package published.
>>
>> I *never* took a day.
>>
>> The quickest build I could observe was about 7 minutes, on which maybe 6
>> are spent creating the build environment (ie: installing sbuild,
>> setting-up the chroot, etc.). There's room for improvement, and I'm sure
>> we could get it as quick as 1 or 2 minutes for the simplest packages. I
>> didn't have time to focus on this, as I was in a hurry to deliver Newton
>> on time, which I did.
> 
> He was talking about delays in the gate itself, that package publishing
> was sometimes delayed because it was a lower priority job than others.
> IIRC, he mentioned that you sometimes complained about how slow package
> publishing was.

When bootstraping OpenStack from scratch, there was some build
dependency to deal with. Therefore, waiting for 20 minutes to have a
package published in the repo was really annoying already, knowing it
could have takes maybe 1/3 of this. Though it was still possible to deal
with.

Cheers,

Thomas




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