How often should release notes be rebuilt on www.debian.org?

[Matt Kraai]

Hi,

The release notes are currently rebuilt by the often script on
www-master.debian.org, which runs every four hours.  Frans Pop, I
believe, suggested that they be rebuilt by the lessoften script
instead, which runs once a day.  Would this be OK?

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[Osamu Aoki]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:02:23AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The release notes are currently rebuilt by the often script on
> www-master.debian.org, which runs every four hours.  Frans Pop, I
> believe, suggested that they be rebuilt by the lessoften script
> instead, which runs once a day.  Would this be OK?

In order to see problem within 24 hours for everyone on earch with
different time zone, could you at least rebuild every 12 hours?

4 hours is nice ... but I guess CPU resource may be an issue.

By the way, does it build all even when there is no change?

Also, as I remember, it build from single XML (and one PO for
translation) for all architectures.  I wonder if build script build
extracted XML for each arch (and update it only if it is different),
then we may save CPU time.

Osamu


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[Simon Paillard]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:37:30AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:02:23AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > The release notes are currently rebuilt by the often script on
> > www-master.debian.org, which runs every four hours.  Frans Pop, I
> > believe, suggested that they be rebuilt by the lessoften script
> > instead, which runs once a day.  Would this be OK?
>
> By the way, does it build all even when there is no change?

Though I could understand this concernt when the makefiles were broken,
but they should be ok now in both etch and lenny (=trunk), so IMO there
is little interest in reducint the frequency build.

It happened a some weeks ago for etch release-notes, but has been fixed, see #542129.

http://www-master.debian.org/build-logs/webwml/release-notes.log
says that there is no longer any useless rebuild, though the install
step is still done whatever is the new source status.
I don't know how long is this step (we may pipe all debwww builds to
'ts' provided by moreutils which timestamps logs), anyway this step may
depend in the source status as well.

Best regards.

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Simon Paillard


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