Latest news on core-updates

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Hello all,

just a quick update to share good news and to heap praise on people who are
not rewarded by seeing their name in a git commit.

Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 11:03:25AM +0200 schrieb Andreas Enge:
> On aarch64 and powerpc, we are still stuck by CI problems.

Thanks to tireless work by Ricardo, Ludovic, Julien, Christopher and myself
enough machines for these architectures are running in the build farm to
hopefully clear the backlog. We went from 1 to 5 aarch machines (or from 4
to 14 build slots), and from 1 to 2 powerpc64le machines (or from 2 to 8
build slots).

The dash boards are filling up, and on x86_64 and i686 the situation looks
comparable to master. On powerpc64le, I have been restarting cancelled jobs
with a little script, and the red dots are also becoming less. On aarch64,
I am waiting for the backlog from master to clear up before trying something
similar. I think the situation on these architectures is better than it
looks on the dashboard.

I hope we will be able to merge core-updates after next weekend; also for
personal reasons, since I will not be able to spend much time on it any
more after that.

So please help us in a last sprint to get core-updates into shape!

Andreas