Hi, On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM Adrien Nader <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > After some quick chat, I'd like to propose that we extend the > > policy to not release SRUs from Fri-Sun to the phased updates > > and not phase them to a 100% at those times. > > > > Cautious users configure their systems to not install phased updates, > > so they will only see new updates once they reach 100% and that > > happening on weekends is not particularly helpful. > > > > I propose that essentially when the phased-updater is started > > between > > > > Friday 00:00 UTC and Monday 12:00 UTC > > > > that it never increments the value to 100. > > > > The second aspect of the weekend question is whether to increment > > the phased update percentage at all, that is should people using > > the defaults be exposed to new updates over the weekend? > > > > To recall, a phased update is usually installed if > > > > Phased-Update-Percentage > rng(seeded with: > > name-version-machineId).randint(0,100) > > > > > > When increasing from 10% to 20%, that means 10% more users will > > receive the update such that a total of 20% of machines received > > it. > > > > Or default policies are: > > > > - low: 10 points per run (2.5 days to complete) > > - medium: 5 points per run (5 days to complete) > > - slow: 1 point per run (25 days to complete) > > > > These likely would need adjusting, as we run the phased > > updater only for 3.5 instead of 7 days. Particularly, the > > slow policy would now take 7 weeks instead of 3.5 (25/7=3.5), > > which is too slow, accordingly slow should receive a bump > > to receive 2 points per run. > > > > Medium may be worthwhile to increase it a bit, such that it > > takes 4 days to complete, this avoids it skipping over 2 > > weekends (the last released update should be half a day in > > the current week + 3.5 days the next week = 4 days). > > > > It may make sense to add an adjustment factor for a weekend > > to scale non-linearly after to "catch up". If the update was > > phased at 50% over the weekend, that's very different from > > an update that was phased at 10% over the weekend and it > > could move to 100% faster. > > Medium is a level I asked for specifically for openssl. It's pretty > recent and its speed was scientifically chosen as between low and slow, > and that's it. Feel free to change it (although it's possible that some > other packages use the same level).
I added openssh to MEDIUM just now. -- Ubuntu-release mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
