What to do about Infrastructure?

[Axianet.ch - Steven Moix]

Hi Thorsten,

IMO, the best option would be to involve people from the Fedora 
Infrastructure. Some of them probably read this list, but did you have 
any formal contact with them?

I'm going to FUDCon Zürich next month, I can bring the issue up as 
everyone is using RPMFusion anyway...

Steven

On 08/21/2010 02:02 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi!
>
> There yet again was a serious misconfiguration on our one and only
> x86-{32,64} builder that was caused indirectly by the branching of
> Fedora 14 a week ago. That's the reason why there are some packages with
> the tag "fc15" in our rawhide repos, which are still targeting F14, as
> we haven't branched yet. It's should be fixed now; thx Nicolas for
> letting me know (and partly blame me, as I should have seen that earlier
> and checked things when the adjustments for the builder were discussed
> something like two weeks ago iirc)
>
> That IMHO is just another(¹) sign that our infrastructure team doesn't
> work well (if at all). I don't blame anyone, but we IMHO really need to
> do something about it. A full reboot / fresh start with new people seems
> way overdue to many.
>
> Are there any options on it? Or maybe anybody even willing to lead that
> effort?
>
> Cu
> knurd
>
> (¹) there were lots of it in the past years and months (not to branch
> when Fedora branches is another(²); that only one of our x86-{32,64}
> builders work in another); heck we never even managed to set up a
> dependency checker and our server infrastructure to me looks a lot like
> fragile hack that could stop to work at any time and might take weeks to
> repair
>
> (²) and partly the fault of the "Release Engineering for RPM Fusion",
> which basically still is inly me, desperate my announcement from a few
> months ago to reduce my contributions to RPM Fusion (or leave it
> completely). That needs fixing as well, but doing one step at a time
> might be better(³)
>
> (³) to be precise: the whole project and it's (currently close to non
> existing) government afaics needs a small restart afaics...