[Fedora-spins] spins in f19

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> So, we had a fudcon session about spins, but it was merged with the
> talk on Fedora Formulas and we didn't really decide anything about
> spins.
>
> Formulas aren't going to fully replace spins, and even if they do, they
> likely won't be ready for f19 anyhow, so we need to figure out what we
> do for f19 now.
>
> a) what about the new spins that didn't get added in f18?
> If their spin owners are actually active, they should chime in and
> commit their ks to git and update the f19 spins page with their size
> and so releng knows to produce them.

What about using the Feature process to get them approved?

> b) Any new spins need to SUBMIT THEIR KS FILES ASAP so we can avoid
> problems where things don't make it.

Agreed

> c) There's no meetings, Christoph is swamped, how do we want to handle
> the day to day business of the sig?

I think discussion on this list.

> I was thinking we should require at each freeze point that any spins we
> promote on spins.fedoraproject.org have at least 2 people sign off that
> they tested them and they basically work. If 0 people do this sign off,
> we should still produce them, but they sit in alt and don't get
> promoted anywhere. If a spin doesn't get any testing for an entire
> cycle, we drop them completely.

Sounds reasonable. What about getting them into the QA process?

Peter