On 13-Mar-06, 17:11 (CST), Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brr, there was no such decision, so no need to inform anything anywhere.
>
> It was more a "try to not grow that fast for now, and try to remove
> stuff when you add new things". That was after the archive growing
> superfast in a very short timeframe, due to some multiple uploads of big
> packages in a row.
Such a decision is a debian level policy decision that should be
discussed with the developers, not something that the ftpmasters should
be unilaterally implementing[1].
At minimum, there should *absolutely* be a message to d-d-a. It
doesn't have to be a dissertation, just a quick "Because of the recent
rapid growth in the repository size, we're temporarily throttling NEW
processing to give the mirrors a chance to catch up."
Steve
[1] Unless the repo is simply out of disk space, in which case you
should also be making an announcement and asking for help.
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system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
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