F13 Blocker bugs urgently need re-testing for tomorrow

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 00:45 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 00:03 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >>
> >> How are the pushes to updates-testing and stable working from within
> >> bohdi for the release. I know we need to use it but compared to other
> >> releases where the final packages have required rel-eng tickets I've
> >> not seen anything other than "we're using bodhi".
> >>
> >> I've pushed some I need for the moblin spin (some were in testing) to
> >> stable and they don't seem to have made it. Do they need blocker bugs
> >> to be tagged into the final release now, rather than through bodhi?
> >> Another bug for sugar that has a blocker bug has had the package
> >> tagged through to final it seems.
> >
> > Until we enter RC phase, that is until the blocker list is cleared,
> > we'll continue to use bodhi as the tool to move builds from candidate,
> > to testing, to stable (/in/ the release).  Once we enter RC phase, a
> > releng ticket or IRC bump will be needed to get something into the
> > release.  However since once we hit RC phase, we're only taking things
> > which are deemed to be release blocking issues, we should all be aware
> > of the issue and be chomping at the bit for the fix.  Otherwise updates
> > will be pushed via bodhi into the updates repo and be available as 0-day
> > (and well -# day) updates.
> 
> Excellent, thanks for the explanation.

Just to add to what Jesse said, there've been some issues over the last
few days, so you may have seen some push requests seemingly not working,
or packages that are listed as having been 'pushed to stable' not being
available from mirrors etc. As implied by what Jesse wrote, all of this
behaviour so far is caused simply by problems, it's not an intentional
change; regardless of the problems, the procedure is indeed just as it
has been for months, you push to testing and then to stable after
getting some feedback, just like with stable releases. There'll only be
an intentional policy change - like Jesse describes - once we get an RC
out (which is supposed to be tomorrow...but, well, look at the blocker
list).

Hopefully the problems with Koji/mash/whatever will be ironed out soon
and all the packages which ought to be in dist-f13 will be there with
tomorrow's/today's compose.
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