[Fedora-spins] MIA spins

John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
Wed Jun 16 23:09:00 UTC 2010


Kevin Fenzi said the following on 06/10/2010 05:33 PM Pacific Time:
> On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:46:26 -0700
> John Poelstra<poelstra at redhat.com>  wrote:
>
>> I would highly recommend considering and adding the following to
>> enable a smoother running Fedora 14 spins cycle compared to Fedora 13:
>>
>> 1) When testing will occur and for how long (through out)?
>
> Yes. Thoughout.

We might get better coverage if we explicitly specify when it it needs 
to happen vs. "all the time" :)

>
>> 2) When you need Release Engineering to create the final spins?
>
> Good question.
>
> I would say this would be the latest RC that gets accepted no?
> So,
>
> 2010-10-14 - RC composes start
> The final spins would be created from whatever RC is accepted as final.

That is followed by the hand-off to QA on 2010-10-16 and then they have 
a week to qualify it.  This raises a couple of questions:

1) How long does it take to create the final spins? (releng)

2) How much time do you need to test them and when should testing start 
and end? (spins)

3) How much lead time does releng need to post the spins for GA, get the 
torrent files ready, etc?  IOW, when does the testing of the spins need 
to be completed by and spins that do not work dropped for Fedora 14?

>
>> 3) When you plan to start test the final spins and for how long?
>
> You mean the ones from the final freeze? Or the ones that rel-eng
> creates?
>

Asked a different way above.

>> 4) When Spins bittorrent files need to be created?
>
> Those have typically been done when rel-eng is ready. Typically the
> weekend before release, but it was monday (the day before release) this
> last time.

I will put on the schedule for the Friday before GA.

>
>> 5) When final verification for final release day will be performed:
>>     --all the expected spins have been created
>>     --all the expected spins have been tested and work
>>     --bittorrent links work
>
> Again, we should get rel-eng input. I would say the friday before
> release? When RC is done? When bit links are made?
>
>> 6) Everything else that needs to be tracked and completed for a
>> successful Fedora 14.
>>     --File design/artwork requests?
>
> Good questions. Artwork and spins.fedoraproject.org dates would be
> great. I guess we need to ask websites and art about what dates should
> be there?
>

Yes, working with them to find out how much lead time they need is 
probably a great idea.  Then we can add some milestones to their 
schedule too so they can be thinking about it and preparing in advance.

John


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