contingency plan for the failed-to-build spins/labs?

[Matthew Miller]

So, we have this bug* where some images are failing to be built, and it
happened that the SoaS spin and Design and Jam labs ended up not
succeeding in what became the official release. They aren't release
blocking, so this is fine "by the books", but it seems unfortunate to
miss them due to what's basically a tools bug rather than something
inherently wrong with them.

Obviously they missed the official cut and won't get synced out with
the rest, but I think the download numbers for these are niche enough
that it's probably okay to host them separately.

As I understand it, someone could just keep submitting the builds until
they happen to work, right? (And this might actually provide some
valuable debug info, because we can compare what works and what
doesn't.) Then, we could put those in /pub/alt or something and have
the spins/labs websites link to that. (These could be then signed with
the official key and etc.)

Or, Adam W suggested that we could instead link to nightlies, with a
footnote or something on the websites.



* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315541


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Matthew Miller
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[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:15:41AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  So, we have this bug* where some images are failing to be built, and
> it
>  happened that the SoaS spin and Design and Jam labs ended up not
>  succeeding in what became the official release. They aren't release
>  blocking, so this is fine "by the books", but it seems unfortunate to
>  miss them due to what's basically a tools bug rather than something
>  inherently wrong with them. 
Peter tells me there's a releng meeting in an hour or so... can we add
this to that agenda?

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Fedora Project Leader

[Robert Mayr]

2016-06-20 15:16 GMT+02:00 Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:

>  On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:15:41AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  > So, we have this bug* where some images are failing to be built, and it
>  > happened that the SoaS spin and Design and Jam labs ended up not
>  > succeeding in what became the official release. They aren't release
>  > blocking, so this is fine "by the books", but it seems unfortunate to
>  > miss them due to what's basically a tools bug rather than something
>  > inherently wrong with them.
>
>  Peter tells me there's a releng meeting in an hour or so... can we add
>  this to that agenda?
>
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>  Fedora Project Leader
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I agree, having some images not in the final (but also in testing) release
is not really a good publicity, but we cannot add them to the official GA
release if they missed the "GOLDen" RC build.
I'm with Adam here, we might add them to the nightlies. Also, as we are
working on a new alt.fedoraproject.org website, we could easily link to
them if needed. This could be a solution.
See the website in staging if you want to take a look:
https://alt.stg.fedoraproject.org

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Robert Mayr
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