F15 EC2 Test Day Rescheduling

[Tim Flink]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:23:30 -0400 (EDT)
Max Spevack <mspevack at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Tim Flink wrote:
> 
> > How long do we want to wait for the koji produced AMIs? I thought
> > that there was talk of just using the BG AMIs for F15 and the koji
> > produced AMIs should be ready for F16.
> >
> > I ask because QA would like to get the F15 EC2 test day done before 
> > the F16 test days start picking up. We would like to get the 
> > announcement (with AMI ids) out by 8/1 and have the test day done
> > by 8/4.
> >
> > Is this going to be possible? If it isn't, how long do we want to
> > wait before giving up on the idea of a F15 EC2 test day and just
> > start with F16?
> 
> According to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule the Alpha of F16
> is due out on Aug 16.  I agree that it would be useful to do F15
> testing in advance of that, but that once F16 Alpha is out, that
> should probably be the first priority, IMHO.

The only argument I can think of for keeping with F15 is that we're
still trying to figure all this out. It might be useful to use F15 as a
trial run for F16 but after a point, I agree that the usefulness is
limited.

> Here's some factors to consider:
> 
> Do we have a generalized AMI test plan that is applicable for both
> F15 and F16?  If so, where is it and do we have any history of
> previous AMIs that have been run through that test plan and how
> things went?

AFAIK, we're figuring this out as we go. Athmane put some test cases
together for the EC2 test day [1] but to the best of my knowledge, there
is nothing official like the the installation test plan [2].

[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-07-19_Cloud_SIG_Fedora_EC2
[2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test

> Do we have any official QA resources from the Fedora QA group, or is
> the QA that we do entirely on volunteer time?

Like James said, it's all volunteer right now. So far, at least Athmane
and I are interested in the test side of things, though.

> If we find bugs, how much developer bandwidth is available for the 
> fixing of them, and what do we predict the release cycle of AMIs 
> can/will be throughout the F16 cycle?  Just because we have an Alpha, 
> Beta, RC, Gold of F16 doesn't mean we can only build an F16 AMI 4
> times.
> 
> We need an F16 AMI QA schedule.  We need to know if that schedule 
> includes any guaranteed QA/rel-eng/developer resource time.

I think this is a little more difficult since we're still trying to
figure the process out. In theory, once the rel-eng EBS issues are
figured out, we shouldn't need to do much extra for EC2. Hopefully, we
wouldn't need more than a test day and some people running through test
cases.

How detailed of a schedule did you have in mind? I don't think that it
would hurt to set some target dates.

Tim
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