[arch-dev-public] RFC: (devtools) Changing default compression method to zstd

[Robin Broda]

On 12/14/19 7:58 PM, Robin Broda via arch-dev-public wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> We are on our way to getting zstd merged.
> 
> The planned merge window for this is **2019/12/27** at around 20:00 Europe/Berlin time.
> Several team members will be meeting at the 36c3, so we figured this is a good opportunity to do this,
> as it makes sure that several people are aware, ready, and together for this - should anything immediately explode.
> 
> This has been ACK'd by anthraxx. Foxboron is also aware.
> I have been mentioning this on IRC, and discussed it with anthraxx via e-mail.
> This mail serves to formalize the plans.
> 
> **There is one hard requirement on the merge happening:**
> 
> All critical Arch Linux production infrastructure needs to be ready.
> The known-unsolved problems are labelled below, please see to them if any of you can.
> I will also take a look myself, but I do not have much involvement with these parts of the puzzle,
> so I would really appreciate someone with more in-depth knowledge taking a look.
> 
> If the known issues are solved and nothing major comes up, the deployment will happen as planned.
> 

All known issues have been dealt with.
We are waiting on the patches to land, thus:
- https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/namcap/ being upgraded to 3.2.9
- https://github.com/archlinux/archivetools/pull/8 being merged
- https://github.com/coderobe/infrastructure/commit/7155521ed6f823ac6c6d06d1b9dcdb8a5165c417 being picked into infrastructure.git
  - this *depends on* the archivetools patch
  - archive-cleaner is not mission-critical, it does not need to be patched before the scheduled deployment
    - Foxboron is working on a patch


These can all be dealt with during the deployment if they do not happen beforehand anyways.
This means the deployment will happen as planned.

-- 
Rob (coderobe)

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