pushes to stable during freeze - process question

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Mon Nov 7 09:19:42 UTC 2011


> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:59:12 -0400 (EDT)
> Kamil Paral <kparal at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Quick question,
> > 
> > how do rel-eng guys know which updates are OK to push to stable
> > during freeze and which are not? For example we have the final
> > freeze
> > now. Some packages like this:
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-14932 are
> > needed
> > to be pushed to stable repo, so they have an exception from the
> > freeze. Blocker and NTH updates have also exception from the
> > freeze.
> > But other packages may be also requesting push to stable and not be
> > eligible for an exception. How do the rel-eng guys know which
> > packages to push and which not to?
> 
> QA files a ticket for each compose before it's made (ie, "we need
> another RC" or 'We need another TC'). In this ticket are listed the
> updates that are needed to be allowed into stable or used for the
> compose.
> 
> So for example:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4951
> 
> kevin

Thanks Kevin,

now it's clear.


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