Get this party started...
Cees de Groot
cg at cdegroot.com
Sun Mar 6 12:05:02 UTC 2005
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 01:03:04 +0100, Avi Bryant <avi.bryant at gmail.com> wrote:
> It raises an interesting question, though: how do we partition the
> partitioning? Do we make a list of packages, and people sign up to
> break a particular one out? Not necessarily to completion - they can
> check it back in when they're done so someone else can continue. It
> seems like optimistic locking has way too much potential for duplicate
> work here.
Yeah. But if you hack up a little locking app, use expiring leases on the
locks so that these locks are released if nothing is done with them for a
week or so.
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