[NOTICE] Breaking changes to the repository structure on Monday 2019-08-19

[Ondrej Lichtner]

Hi all,

this is an update to a couple of upcoming changes this git repository. These
changes will break workflows that currently depend on cloning this repository
directory and using the master branch. As such I'm giving a one week notice for
everyone to have a chance to update their scripts.

As Python2 official support is quickly coming to an end as well as our
development focus having largely moved to the next branch we'll be:
* deprecating the current master branch where Python2 XML recipe code currently
  lives. We'll create a new 'legacy-py2' branch and the current revision will
be
  tagged with v14, this will be the final release of LNST that works on Python2
  and uses XML based recipes.
* The 'master-py3' branch will be renamed to 'legacy-py3' and the current
  revision will be tagged with v15.
* If needed we might provide or accept bug fixes to these branches and might tag
  new minor releases tagged v14.y or v15.y. There will be no more features or
  test recipes developed on these branches, this is basically the current state
  anyway so it shouldn't be a surprise.
* We'll work on packaging both versions as rpms for Fedora this week, after that
  the minor updates to v15 might get rpm updates but only until v16 has been
  released.
* The current next branch will be renamed to 'master' and any feature or test
  recipe development will happen on this branch. The first release will be
  tagged v16 and will happen once we're satisfied with the stability of the
  basic tester facing APIs so that we can ensure their future compatibility.

In my opinion the current state of the next branch is good enough for basic
usage and some APIs are probably good enough to call stable. However as we
develop some of our old test set with the new APIs, small changes may happen and
some new features might appear.

I expect that in the 'near future' of let's say 6 months we'll actively
have
started reviewing and marking some APIs as stable. Once the basic minimum of
features has been marked as stable we'll tag the first release of the redesigned
LNST with python recipes.

If you have any concerns/questions/suggestions or any generic comments for
discussion please feel free to reply to this email.

-Ondrej

[Ondrej Lichtner]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 03:00:42PM +0200, Ondrej Lichtner wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  this is an update to a couple of upcoming changes this git repository. These
>  changes will break workflows that currently depend on cloning this repository
>  directory and using the master branch. As such I'm giving a one week notice for
>  everyone to have a chance to update their scripts.
>  
>  As Python2 official support is quickly coming to an end as well as our
>  development focus having largely moved to the next branch we'll be:
>  * deprecating the current master branch where Python2 XML recipe code currently
>    lives. We'll create a new 'legacy-py2' branch and the current revision will
> be
>    tagged with v14, this will be the final release of LNST that works on Python2
>    and uses XML based recipes.
>  * The 'master-py3' branch will be renamed to 'legacy-py3' and the
> current
>    revision will be tagged with v15.
>  * If needed we might provide or accept bug fixes to these branches and might tag
>    new minor releases tagged v14.y or v15.y. There will be no more features or
>    test recipes developed on these branches, this is basically the current state
>    anyway so it shouldn't be a surprise.
>  * We'll work on packaging both versions as rpms for Fedora this week, after that
>    the minor updates to v15 might get rpm updates but only until v16 has been
>    released.
>  * The current next branch will be renamed to 'master' and any feature or test
>    recipe development will happen on this branch. The first release will be
>    tagged v16 and will happen once we're satisfied with the stability of the
>    basic tester facing APIs so that we can ensure their future compatibility.
>  
>  In my opinion the current state of the next branch is good enough for basic
>  usage and some APIs are probably good enough to call stable. However as we
>  develop some of our old test set with the new APIs, small changes may happen and
>  some new features might appear.
>  
>  I expect that in the 'near future' of let's say 6 months we'll actively
> have
>  started reviewing and marking some APIs as stable. Once the basic minimum of
>  features has been marked as stable we'll tag the first release of the redesigned
>  LNST with python recipes.
>  
>  If you have any concerns/questions/suggestions or any generic comments for
>  discussion please feel free to reply to this email.
>  
>  -Ondrej
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I have now pushed the v14 and v15 tags creating the respective version
releases and created fedora 30 package updates for both.

Branch renames are still scheduled for Monday (2019-08-19).

-Ondrej

[Ondrej Lichtner]

Hi again,

as promised the changes have been pushed to the repository:
* master branch has been renamed to legacy-py2 and current revision
  tagged as v14
* master-py3 branch has been renamed to legacy-py3 and current revision
  tagged as v15
* no more active development will happen on these branches, bug fixes
  will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis
* next branch has been renamed to master and this is where all future
  development will continue

Thanks,

-Ondrej

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 03:00:42PM +0200, Ondrej Lichtner wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this is an update to a couple of upcoming changes this git repository. These
> changes will break workflows that currently depend on cloning this repository
> directory and using the master branch. As such I'm giving a one week notice for
> everyone to have a chance to update their scripts.
> 
> As Python2 official support is quickly coming to an end as well as our
> development focus having largely moved to the next branch we'll be:
> * deprecating the current master branch where Python2 XML recipe code currently
>   lives. We'll create a new 'legacy-py2' branch and the current revision
will be
>   tagged with v14, this will be the final release of LNST that works on Python2
>   and uses XML based recipes.
> * The 'master-py3' branch will be renamed to 'legacy-py3' and the
current
>   revision will be tagged with v15.
> * If needed we might provide or accept bug fixes to these branches and might tag
>   new minor releases tagged v14.y or v15.y. There will be no more features or
>   test recipes developed on these branches, this is basically the current state
>   anyway so it shouldn't be a surprise.
> * We'll work on packaging both versions as rpms for Fedora this week, after that
>   the minor updates to v15 might get rpm updates but only until v16 has been
>   released.
> * The current next branch will be renamed to 'master' and any feature or
test
>   recipe development will happen on this branch. The first release will be
>   tagged v16 and will happen once we're satisfied with the stability of the
>   basic tester facing APIs so that we can ensure their future compatibility.
> 
> In my opinion the current state of the next branch is good enough for basic
> usage and some APIs are probably good enough to call stable. However as we
> develop some of our old test set with the new APIs, small changes may happen and
> some new features might appear.
> 
> I expect that in the 'near future' of let's say 6 months we'll
actively have
> started reviewing and marking some APIs as stable. Once the basic minimum of
> features has been marked as stable we'll tag the first release of the redesigned
> LNST with python recipes.
> 
> If you have any concerns/questions/suggestions or any generic comments for
> discussion please feel free to reply to this email.
> 
> -Ondrej
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