EC2 / F17 Alpha: BROKEN

[Robyn Bergeron]

On 02/27/2012 10:02 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 27 February 2012 09:48, Robyn Bergeron<rbergero at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> Apparently appliance-tools is not working properly.  This leads to either:
>>
>> * Cannot start doing updates for F17 until EC2 images are
>> made/booting/working
>> OR
>> * No EC2 for F17 Alpha (because updates will be in, and EC2 F17 alpha would
>> be different from Other Alphas)
>>
>> I'm recommending going with the latter option, simply because there is no
>> criteria at all right now for making EC2 a blocker. Your (very immediate)
>> thoughts are welcomed. I'm not particularly interested in slipping all of
>> alpha after it met all of the shipping criteria and was announced to be
>> shippable.
>>
>> Dennis, do you have a bug number for this (appliance-tools brokenness) yet?
>>
>> I'm open to future recommendations, including doing a test compose/upload of
>> EC2 images so that we know this before we have a go/no-go meeting, at the
>> bare minimum. Please feel free to pipe in. :D
> Would it make sense to start working with FESCO and QA on "reference"
> platforms. These would be items that we definitively test against to
> make sure they work on (and vice versa we can exclude platforms we
> can't test/work on). The reason I am asking is that looking at the ARM
> situation, it would be useful to narrow down testing to a subset of
> boxes versus the N+1 versions of ARM out there and for cloud it might
> make sense for our starting points to do the same.
Yup, we just discussed it in the QA meeting; there apparently is an open 
ticket that is going to get back to being loved on.  If I can dig it up 
I'll post it so you have the information as well for ARM-y purposes.
>