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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:52:23 +0100 Martin Gautier <martin.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hmm. I understand but I don't get that a release date has been set > and the mirrors weren't synced before-hand in preparation. ? The mirrors cannot be hidden ? As soon as the sync happens, the release has occurred. The two events cannot be separated and the sync takes a significant amount of time. It's easier with Emdebian because we have so few packages and only one repository, but even so the actual release of just 1,000 packages on a single site took about 2 hours, from logging in to completing the Release files that make the updated files available to users. > To my customers, a release date is a release date - not a date when > we might start thinking about the possibility of letting them have > some code... It is a date, not a second. The launch happens during the course of that day. With issues of timezones, it never can be available the very first second of the launch day because that is always a different day in another timezone - hence the tendency to try and complete the sync by midday. > I guess the RC could be OK, I was hoping for just one hit, not a faff > > Disappointing. Huh? How is it disappointing that you had completely unreasonable expectations? This is live, it isn't a blockade or embago system like proprietary stuff. If you want to be sure that the release has happened, treat the launch date as the *end* of that day in all timezones. > It's not released until the release manager flips the switch. It's not a switch, it is a long process of file synchronisations across mirrors all over the world. It takes hours and any one specific mirror is "released" at a different time. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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