news 28 Posted April 17, 2017 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi, A small infrastructure update from the release team. We have updated the schedules of two tools related to testing migrations: * Britney will now do migration from unstable to testing 4 times a day with 6 hour intervals (matching the number of "dinstalls"). - The ageing (still) occurs for the 22:00 UTC run as it did previously, which means the bulk of all migrations will still occur at that point. - Auto-removal hints are added once every day, just before the 10:00 UTC run - The other runs can cause changes in testing due to changes in the last 6 hours: - Changes to RC bugs - hints by the release team - build for certain architectures being uploaded (or binNMUs) - binary removals from unstable * Britney now updates the "excuses" hourly. These excuses show if packages will be candidates for migration to testing in the next Britney run. Please note that many consumers (e.g. tracker.debian.org/packages.qa.debian.org) only poll release.debian.org at a much lower frequency (~4 times a day). - For now, please use "grep-excuses" from devscripts to see the current status. * Effective on the 2017-04-18, we will shift the time of the migration emails by 12 hours. - This means you will see the emails appearing at about 04:39 UTC rather than 16:39 UTC starting on the 18th of April. - The timing is to align the mails with the changes done by the 22:00 UTC Britney run (of the preceding day) being committed. Short about the rationale for these changes: ============================================ Britney: =-=-=-=- We hope that the hourly excuse updates means that it will be easier for contributors to accurately and quickly assess the migration status of their packages. There is no reason why you should have to wait 12 hours to learn that Britney was notified of a regression or that the release team has applied a policy exception hint. Migration mails: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Many contributors rely on the email notifications to determine when a package as migrated. These contributors generally experience a 12 hour delay between the migration of their packages (have been committed) and them actually receiving the notification. By moving the emails to 04:39 UTC, this delay is shorten to the minimum possible for the majority of all migrations. We did consider running the mail migration script more than once per calendar day. However, due to some implementation details in these scripts, we are not quite confident that it would work out as we would like it to. For the Release Team, Niels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEsxMaRR2/33ygW0GXBUu7n32AZEIFAlj0hh0ACgkQBUu7n32A ZEKZEhAAiFVNxyfSC9o7OMx2vbLzWhoLpEOKTWZZ23wltEIl70MwH2r+jJgKn6t+ CZuq/8wTEqmiye6x6/bCWdl2HHjviclry0MLKfFxANNAQg8DS8AlEVWizHJ0Awp3 WAph5XLijchv+7sH+Iz7YtDgWNV39uzO3IdhpKnA5En8PQplVCkPUfHlLVyjTwYq x66U2rurgZBs0vUYe8cTtL5bqY5Mx0C9MPpDsRilCvW10eIhwTu6q9JUggtzwGGW BsNumtUtmxbiz77OQjuRyCNeUixnGVmQajf1AlptOFe7xitVk9Ek4yETfo11S9WL 84exOHy8rpvqay+yMkk7WMA9zSv/miNY/vYpmnr+1zhSU2T9F+ofynfZA/ONMxnw cU16KA3Shh9rXngrgog5lyZ/KSENmd2Om4JUOd/NvxHHR0S6qlQpCm3QnY6XHgJm wntWGcxgms4v7hTvmZc4w8Tc7R9G6CcnT+erG6UNKsCzwvkoux25nuL1/Lc6Xpbx M53Bb+wNUBLEkFTeF5P4SHoFYW3MwZb8Dr8dSRrB6yIkVzMSoL0BtK8ItaBxtSP5 a8Xfgqt30BUpP48Tav+YKEpq2SD5icMvDrC5WZXgEwZDBnkR4gy8wi97X75cHNAS D16xDI9SLcj43mwZcuAqKF0FGRoQrOpXarNXUITb+3+nIIzDqAs= =dA7h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Share this post Link to post