Written by Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers During week 2019/30, I tried to slow down the check-in cadence a little bit, in order to allow the ARM build system to catch up. Especially the full rebuild with LTO enabled caused a much higher load on the ARM workers than would be normal. And I am happy to […]
Read MoreopenSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2019/28 & 29
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers During the last two weeks, openSUSE Tumbleweed has been reconfigured to build all packages (where possible) using LTO (Link-Time Optimization). Whenever we have such a big change in compiler or compiler flags, we are rebuilding the entire distribution. With the 12k source packages, that can take a moment. Even OBS […]
Read MoreopenSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2019/27
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers Tumbleweed is back at FULL STEAM – and we managed to publish 7 snapshots during the last week. Granted, with SUSE engineering being at #hackweek, many snapshots were rather small – and thus build time was often only a couple hours compared to the usual 16 – 20 hours to […]
Read MoreopenSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2019/25 & 26
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers During the last two weeks, we handed 12 snapshots over to openQA for testing. Of those, 5 have actually been released to the mirrors. Reasons for discarded snapshots can be many: highest up of course is a product issue, that is detected and rated impacting enough to block a snapshot. […]
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