From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 79439 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2020 01:51:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 79391 invoked by uid 89); 6 Feb 2020 01:51:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Languages-Length:559, H*M:7434 X-HELO: us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com Received: from us-smtp-2.mimecast.com (HELO us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com) (207.211.31.81) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 06 Feb 2020 01:51:56 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1580953914; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=VdX4UVivDHlxUbMhBXEHRpjXFlT0MxBIn2+aU0Oq+ME=; b=TIM+keAY+USZQJ/29IWZ9+1a/HFPDPqt3w9vwVtSnNS70u/eiZfQCvv0FCnbshqDqx+0/J XnvwMQF0x5GoxngPK0C++t8a5a83G6v6lfPrXwoVcBOX0LAmDUGyX5cxnszNAmAx2QAdUb a6Q93j5qDfkWZgyrHk9V1xOcKmzuVvo= Received: from mail-qv1-f72.google.com (mail-qv1-f72.google.com [209.85.219.72]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-153-SAc8VWnnPTaOw-87-xBGjg-1; Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:51:50 -0500 Received: by mail-qv1-f72.google.com with SMTP id g6so2766752qvp.0 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2020 17:51:50 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.1.4] (135-23-175-75.cpe.pppoe.ca. [135.23.175.75]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s26sm768224qkj.24.2020.02.05.17.51.49 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 05 Feb 2020 17:51:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Choice of distribution for new sourceware.org server? To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" , overseers@sourceware.org, Florian Weimer References: <74e963de-f7c8-33d0-d133-ada427c000a4@redhat.com> <20200206013050.GA16275@cgf.cx> <20200206013405.GC97355@elastic.org> From: Carlos O'Donell Message-ID: Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 01:51:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200206013405.GC97355@elastic.org> X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-q1/txt/msg00061.txt On 2/5/20 8:34 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Hi - > >> I have suggested Fedora in the past and would be happy to be using it. > > Having to upgrade apprx. every 8 months is a PITA though, with so much > activity and non-distro software on the machine. Sorry, I don't follow, could you expand on this a bit? How much non-distro software is there on sourceware? When you say "activity" do you mean that users would be impacted once every 8 months for a small window of downtime? -- Cheers, Carlos.