RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:10:58 -0500
Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:

> Our original thoughts on this were that we would tie this to the
> bodhi/repocreate phase of things. Basically, before each automatic
> repocreate run in Rawhide, we would run the set of tier 1 and tier 2
> acceptance tests. If any of them failed, we would send out emails to
> the owners of any package that would have been pushed to the repo and
> not push any of them.

I don't think koji has any sense of 'new packages' there. 
newRepo tasks just run over all the packages in a tag and make the
repos. They don't know what package(s) change. :( 
 
> Yes, it would be a manual step to update the tests to allow the push
> to go through. I'm not going to deny the possibility that some people
> might opt to bypass the process and just update the tests as they go.
> We would prefer they did not (and if someone gets caught doing this
> repeatedly, there are steps that can be taken), but it helps us to
> avoid *unintentional* breakage, which is the hallmark of Rawhide at
> this point.

Sure. 

> It's worth noting that right now we are less than a week from Alpha
> freeze for Fedora 19, and yet Rawhide is not installable. This is what
> we would like to avoid.

Oh? How would we know? We don't make rawhide install images anymore... 

Or this is some local testing you have done?

> When we drafted the proposal, our expectation was that AutoQA would be
> a good fit here, mostly due to its current positioning within the
> updates system. We reasoned that it would be a fit place to make the
> gating decisions. If this proposal sees sufficient support and
> approval, we will petition Red Hat for dedicated resources on AutoQA
> (or whatever framework we settle on). We believe that an installable
> Rawhide and more stable development platform is in the best interests
> of Red Hat as well (Note: I am not speaking in an official capacity as
> a Red Hat employee here; this is my view as a member of both
> communities).

Well, bodhi is not used for rawhide in any way currently... so, not
sure how we can properly fit autoqa in there. :( 

kevin
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