On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 5:05 PM Gerald Pfeifer <gp@suse.com> wrote:
On Mon 2021-03-15, medwinz wrote:
A major update of TW will cause some delays in mirrors getting updated. As someone who maintain 2 mirrors for ID/AS, I can verify this. 15.3 Beta release and the last 2 TW snapshot was so closed. It makes mirrors way too busy to send and receive the traffic.
Thank you for sharing this, Edwin!
In the weekly release engineering meeting I just suggested whether we could look into spacing Leap Betas/RCs and larger Tumbleweed snapshots farther apart, and Lubos (Leap) kindly indicated to have a chat with Dominique (Tumbleweed).
Gerald
Thank you Gerald. My logic is simple, mirrors cannot catch up with the new release if several major updates happen at nearly the same time. They will be late. Many mirrors provide repositories not only for openSUSE but also for other linux distributions. This will overburden the main update repository and probably users will complain about time-out or delay in update and dup process as well. Complaining about the update process is not good for the distribution. I read the meeting minutes, thanks for the hard work of Lubos and Dominique (Is Max also still involved in TW?). Anyway, the green vaccine seems to work quite well on them! -- Edwin