Comment 4 for bug 718478

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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:31:42 +0200
From: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
To: James Westby <email address hidden>
Cc: Paul Sokolovsky <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Mirror service per-host configs and timeouts to alleviate
upstream downtimes

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:51 PM, James Westby <email address hidden>
wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 23:40:35 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky
> <email address hidden> wrote:
>> What exact issues do you see here? These changes would allow us to
>> always sync with trees we directly develop on (git.linaro.org, maybe
>> some vendor trees later), while sync more lazily with 3rd party
>> trees, of which we don't even use master branch, but some release
>> branch/tag which updates infrequently on their own.
>>
>> Just in case, Alexander on IRC expressed desire for the following
>> schedule: always sync with git.linaro.org, for other hosts, can sync
>> like twice a day.
>
> Well, that's the exact problem that I see. Google does another code
> drop and we have a choice of waiting 12 hours until we can build it,
> or doing some manual intervention?

ATM, we manually track google tags (point releases) for our builds and
rebase our changes to new tags when they show up. We might want to
track the release branch rather than tags at some point, but for our
current practice this does not really matter and 12h is probably fine
if this helps.

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 - Alexander

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Best Regards,
Paul