No countdown today

[James]

Hello,

It seems that there is some intermittent issue at Savannah.gnu.org that 
is stopping me from pulling or fetching (I am getting either 
'SSH-message' errors or 'fatal read' errors.

This has been ongoing since last week. I thought it was perhaps 'just 
me' until Federico also had the same problem, well this morning neither 
my work or home machine can connect.

I am also having a very hard time of getting consistent make docs and 
make checks to complete on current master as has been shown with the 
last couple of patches that David has submitted and which subsequently 
failed my tests. The combination of being unable to pull or fetch and 
something breaking make doc/make check (and even occasionally make 
test-baseline) means that I have spent a lot of time NOT doing useful LP 
work.

Unless I can get a consistent build to complete using j5, 6 or 7 [1] let 
alone be able to pull from Savanah, nothing much in the way of patches 
(and patchy staging merge come to that) is going to happen until at 
least Tuesday now. I may get a few moments tomorrow morning and then 
again perhaps Monday evening.

Sorry for this but this week is especially busy for me, so I have run 
out of time (so to speak) for my normal Patch Meister duties with all 
this fighting of our own tools.

Thanks for your understanding.

James


1. anything less makes patch testing start to become impractical 
time-wise as make doc takes a relatively long time to finish and even 
with my j7 compilation, testing 3 patches can take anywhere from 35 - 45 
minutes with j6 - remember that someone needs to be there to check reg 
tests visually when a patch is tested)