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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:04 PM, John Arbash Meinel
<john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Just a comment. 12 hours is a rather unreasonable expectation.
> Specifically, nobody *should* be working 12 hours after they have
> submitted something. Either they do it at the beginning of their day,
> and 12 hours is past when they should stop. Or they do it at the end of
> their day, and 12 hours is before they start again.

I check the reports first thing I start work and before I stop.

> I realize many of us don't work a regular 8-hour block. But I'm pretty
> sure that is the official expectation.
>
> I don't have a great answer for this, but it really means 'check the
> next day'. If that is too long of a delay, then you really need a
> different process.

Its tolerable to check the next day, yes. We had several weeks worth
of unqaed things.

> Maybe I'm being a stickler, but you shouldn't have to log on before you
> go to bed so that you don't back up the deployment queue. If you *can*
> that's nice and helpful, but it certainly shouldn't be an expectation.

Its not an expectation, and I didn't mean to imply it was. Its
precisely that folk (including me, all rumours to the contrary) want
to be able to sleep and do things other than work that has the 12 hour
delay be such a big problem.

-Rob