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Re: moratorium on new package submissions!


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:53:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:34:20PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> Can we hold off on new package uploads for a couple of days to allow the
>>> mirrors some time to stabilize?  I was thinking that we could resume uploads
>>> after Christmas.
>>
>>OK. I had already been holding off on a number of updates /until/ 1.7.1
>>was released; they can wait a few more days.
>>
>>However, I had already uploaded a new version of libiconv, so that horse
>>has left the barn.
>
>It was actually that plus a couple of other packages which prompted my
>message.
>
>Of course, there has been at least one package update since I sent this
>message too so a cow has crashed through the barn wall.

It looks like we're down to five stale mirrors.  That makes me wonder
how often these mirrors are contacting sourceware since it's been more
than 24 hours now.

Nevertheless, I see progress every time the mirror checker runs so we
should be fully caught up by Saturday 2009-12-26.  I think we can start
package uploads at that point.

cgf


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