Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
On 19 February 2016 at 15:54, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
And, last but not least, as promised, a word about why there have been no new snapshots released since 0209 (released on Feb 12): openSUSE Tumbleweed relies heavily on openQA and the test results we receive from the automated tests. For not yet clear reasons, the most powerful worker we have (had) on openQA.opensuse.org decided to quit its job (it did not mention the wish to find a new career path). This left openQA running with only 2 workers left instead of the usual 10. The remaining work force is largely overloaded and can’t cope with the workload. There were only two options left for us: release without testing or hold back the snapshots. As evidence shows, we opted to hold back the snapshots. Various solutions are currently evaluated to get new worker power on openQA, which includes borrowing machines from other SUSE owned instances.
Have a great weekend ahead, Dominique
Since Dominique wrote this the SUSE Infra Team, Ludwig, and I have managed to migrate one of SUSE's internal SLE openQA workers to the openSUSE infra Thanks to all involved We now have a super-fast beast of a machine that is significantly faster than the old hardware running through the openqa.opensuse.org testing backlog, and I expect Tumbleweed to really enjoy and make the most out of this new hardware in the coming weeks. This will then be supplemented by even more new hardware sponsored by SUSE, which we are expecting will turn up soon (we ordered it some time ago, before the current problems with the current workers arose) Happy Hacking, Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org