builds in waiting state since forever

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:46:37 +0100, Nicolas wrote:

> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:51:47 +0100, Nicolas wrote:
> >
> >> 2011/1/25 Julian Sikorski:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > if you go to http://buildsys.rpmfusion.org/build-status/ you will see
> >> > that dosemu and pdflib-lite have been in waiting state since forever.
> >> > Just a heads up in an unlikely case I am the only one who noticed.
> >> This time there is a bugreport already:
> >>
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1163
> >>
> >> Please use it.
> >>
> >> Nicolas (kwizart)
> >
> > Use it for what? It's a ticket opened on 2010-04-16 and referring back to
> > "December last year", which means 2009. It doesn't tell anything about
> > what is wrong. No status update. Nothing. Is there a problem with Plague?
> > Or just with the build target configuration on the builders?
> 
> I don't understand the meaning of your intervention.
> Do you mean the report is unrelated to the problem ??? No it isn't.

Who can tell? The ticket is almost a year old and refers to even older
issues. Is it still the same problem? Have EL-5 builds worked some time
after that ticket in 2010? Nobody from Infra has answered in that ticket.
The ticket has never been closed either. It's open since 2010-04-16.
Has anything been done in response to the bug report?

> What 'we' packagers expect from users is to report to our bugzilla in
> the case of they experience a problem.

Understandably.  Still it isn't asked too much to take notice of
mailing-list threads like this. On a low-traffic list. I've unsubscribed
from the sysadmin list, which doesn't see any traffic at all. It's silent
for months. Is IRC the only place where one could lurk in hope of getting
status updates or insider details? IRC is pretty much a waste of time.

> That's at a very higher level of expectation that the same apply from
> RPM Fusion contributors to the infrastructure team.
> 
> To me, your reading of the report is unaccurate, it has happened a lot
> since the initial report. and the bug could have been closed for some
> time but it's now reopened without anyone to notify the one in charge
> of the buildsys infra.

The ticket's "activity log" doesn't say anything about "reopened".
The first impression is that the ticket has been ignored.

Perhaps you refer to a different ticket than the one you linked?

> The fact that the one assigned to the task isn't verbose as expected
> is a very different and probably more individual problem. 

The assignee has _not_ responded at all.