Bug 279414

Summary:	PROPOSAL: solution for lack of resources to build all packages
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak <vermaden>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	Port Management Team <portmgr>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	dsh
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak 2024-05-30 22:48:19 UTC

Hi,

as we know the FreeBSD infrastructure wears 'thin' and there is for example not enough 'horsepower' to rebuild all 'electron*' (or other heavy) packages for both 'latest' and 'quarterly' packages branches.

I would propose something that could solve that.

Right now 'latest' packages are rebuild about once a week.
Right now 'quarterly' packages are rebuild about once a quarter.

New proposal:

Introduce new 'biweekly' target and drop 'quarterly'.

Keep just one 'tree' of packages and link both 'latest' and 'quarterly' to it.

If 'biweekly' (every 14 days) is too short windows - it can also be 'every 20 days'.

Just an idea ...

Regards,
vermaden