Re: [Boost-testing] ATTN Testers...

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-07 21:17:17

on Wed Dec 05 2007, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>>>> In the mean time I'd like all testers to contact me *privately* so I can 
>>>>> tell you the username/password for the new location.
>>>> Never mind... Martin is setting his up without a password. So the 
>>>> changes will be automatic when they happen :-)
>>> OK, changes are in. It will obviously take some time as the results are 
>>> filled in again.
>> 
>> Hmm, I think a better use of more than one possible upload locations is
>> to fall back on the next one if the "preferred" one is unavailable.
>> Should Martin's machine die the same way our did, the feedback cycle 
>> will be interrupted for a while again.
>
> Perhaps... But that would take more work to implement than I can afford 
> at the moment. And we still want the ideal of bypassing FTP altogether 
> with a route directly to a database. 

Bitten bypasses FTP: https://boost-consulting.com/trac/projects/boost/build/trunk

> Of course we will have the same weak point in relying on a single
> database point. So suggestion on how to set up a high reliability
> distributed database service are welcome.

Are you sure you aren't going overboard?  Shouldn't we be equally
concerned about the fact that there's a single SVN database?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com