Jonah,
    Normally I regenerate the catalogs as soon as I see your
      announcement, I test that one or more packages can be installed,
      and then I commit the changes generally many many hours
      ahead of time.
    For this generation process I only need the update site URLs, not
      the actual products.  I see right now there is no M3 here:
    https://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/packages/2024-03/
    
    I imagine a significant number of people also just use the update
      sites to update to the new EPP versions.  So if that's possible,
      to produce, that would be a good thing.  I don't know how I could
      accommodate partial builds with only a subset of architectures.
    
    I've disabled this job because if SimRel M3 is made visible then
      M2 will no longer be visible, and with only EPP M2 visible, that
      will make it impossible to install anything because of some of the
      strict version ranges.
    
     
https://ci.eclipse.org/simrel/view/Releng%20jobs/job/simrel.releng.makeVisible/
    I will be generally available today and into the evening to
      accommodate late coming progress.  As soon as there is an EPP M3
      update site, I could proceed...
    
    Regards,
      Ed
      
    
    On 23.02.2024 03:38, Jonah Graham
      wrote:
    
    
      
      Hi everyone,
        
        
        We still don't have a 2024-03 M3. Starting yesterday the
          EPP build seems to have stopped working reliably. Something
          has changed in the behaviour, and I have not tracked down
          where exactly yet.
        
        
        I have created a staged build that has the top 5 products
          for the x86-64 arch here 
https://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/staging/
          I did that because this smaller size of build seems to have
          worked its way through the system. (Only 20 archives needed to
          be produced instead of the typical 70)
        
        If we can resolve it soon without restructuring the build
          we may still have an M3. Otherwise I am going to start working
          on restructuring the build (in the way Fred suggested) so that
          each job only builds a smaller portion and we stitch it all
          together at the end, but realistically that won't be complete
          for a couple of days.
        
        
        
        
        
        @Ed Merks I know in a few hours
          you normally make the catalog ahead of the release at 10am
          Ottawa time. We have the option to just publish the 5 products
          for now, but I suspect it is less disruptive to publish
          nothing than a partial build. Thoughts? I will be online again
          in the morning Ottawa time.
        
 
        
        
        
        
        
        Thanks
        Jonah