Comment 8 for bug 478691

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

William, we maintain those PPAs to supplement the service of the ubuntu distribution as a whole. Its not like many teams will run mozilla dailies, just because the fun of it. They are an important resource in fixing/verifying bugs and keeping track of regressions in ubuntu and upstream. Also some of the PPAs have plenty of users whose service would be busted by such discrimination.

So if you start talking about discriminating built time on a PPA/packages base, remember to also take into account the usefulness of the PPAs/packages in the ubuntu context (or even overall).

Anyway, the change that lead to this should not have been done before talking to the ones running those dailies - speaking me or fta. We should be well known to the soyuz team by now.

Now we need to act similar swiftly like you landed this ... which is why i urge you to do something (that is not a complete rollback!) like I suggested in comment 3. We can still get to a better even fairer approach when we know how to tackle this problem for real.