On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Paul Millar wrote:
Yes, I meant EST. Or, as you can see from your graph, 10am GMT is perfect.
OK. Its also the most likely time by which Alexandre has committed all the patches for that night (although it doesn't guarantee it). If we had to have a fixed build time, its the best time; but I wouldn't describe it as perfect (but maybe that's just me being awkward :^)
Whatever you want to call it, but yes, 10am GMT is the most natural end/begin of the 24h cycle. It seems to be a rather good choice.
As for the issue of nighly build vs. randomly initiated build: we can argue till the cows come home. It seems that we have different points of view. If you want to have CVS-triggered builds for WRT, all the power to you, they makes sense in that (controlled) environment. For the nightly builds however, I would really like having a build that's kicked off at a precise moment in time (and as we discussed, 10GMT seems a good choice).
Please try to understand that as a developer on Wine, having this extra variability adds _nothing_ but headache. It makes it harder to think about the problem, to talk about it, to script for it, etc. I don't need it, and I don't want it.