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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Julian Edwards
<julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Build Farm Improvements
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> This is currently going well, we have a few initiatives ongoing:
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> Making build uploads asynchronous.
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> Parallel scans of slaves.
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> Better failure detection.
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> Software Center
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> Derived Distributions
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> UI mockups and user testing.
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> Moving server scripts to the job system.
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> Booby-Traps!
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>
> Soyuz has a lot of very old bugs that we've traditionally only looked at once
> they've caused havoc in production.  Francis likes to call these booby-trap
> bugs and while we've not had a leg blown off yet, I've pulled shrapnel from
> places I don't want to talk about.  This approach is not healthy for our
> production status, so we're embarking on a way of slotting in fixes for these
> while doing our normal feature developments.  Hopefully we'll see more long-
> term stability from Soyuz by the end of the year.
>

Nice description :D

Will be great to see a world where Soyuz just runs smoothly all the time.

> Thanks for reading this far.  If you know what "Soyuz" means in Russian I hope
> you found the subject of this email entertaining.

Thanks for sending out the update!

jml