Am Mittwoch, den 18.11.2009, 15:08 -0800 schrieb Jesse Keating:
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:15 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
This is something that would be good to understand for the future. We'd really like to have the final spins be tested. Maybe we need RCs for each spin? Releng will possibly want Spins SIG help if we go that route.
We did have some RCs that were published, but given that there were 18 live images to make, getting them all made, published, and wait for feedback on all of them between every RC would have been extremely limiting in our ability to have fast turnaround on RCs.
In order to accommodate so many spins, the spin process had to be very hands off from releng point of view. I have to trust that the spin owners are vigilant in ensuring their spin works, so that releng can compose and publish all of them in the very limited amount of time we have.
Basically we'll need spin owners to participate when we reach RC stage, and as each day passes, if any package gets tagged for the release that is in one of your spins, you'll have the responsibility of re-ensuring your spin works.
I can only test what I'm told to test. I tested all the nightlies and all worked. I didn't even know there were images at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/12-RC.4/ and according to Bill these were not really the rc4 images but the final ones. So were were this rc images that you mentioned at the beginning of your mail?
For the next release I suggest to send a mail to every spin owner and tell him to test each image rel-eng makes. I'm sure owners and the SIG will be happy to help rel-eng wherever they can.
Regards, Christoph