[oi-dev] Release engineering // planing

[Jonathan Adams]

I still believe that a 3 repository system would be best, a release/stable
which will start with a7, a dev which will have the bits from bleeding that
check out with enough LGTM's and a bleeding edge which is closer to a "wild
frontier" where almost anything goes.

give the keys to stable to someone who will guard it well, and trusts nobody
let dev be the place where good/stable _looking_ code goes
leave the gate wide open and trust that the build errors will be fixed some
time in bleeding edge.

the great trouble with the LGTM system is that you cannot easily prove that
something is stable until it has been tested by a lot of users, having a
well used dev allows for this.

a separate dev where anything goes however allows development to happen at
a much greater pace for initial testing, without disturbing the long term
future "stable"s.

Just my 2 cents.

Jon


On 11 July 2013 19:33, Piotr Jasiukajtis <estibi at me.com> wrote:

> I think an updated illumos-gate packages should go into oi_151a7 first,
> because of NFS related BUG fix #2986.
>
> On Jul 11, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabowski at kit.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > On 11/07/2013 18:53, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> >> ....
> >> I do think that /dev should get moved to /release, and /hipster should
> go to
> >> /dev. Not many know about hipster beyond the oi-dev list. It would show
> people
> >> in the outside world that progress is being made on OI.A
> > > ...
> >
> > But at that point, there should be provided a way to switch
> > current people on /dev to /release, surely most do not want
> > to be exposed to hipster...
> > And that seems not to be trivial, probably it needs a bump
> > to a new release number.
> > Personally I think this switch should be done now on the
> > base of a7 (sunstudio compiled, with maybe a few couple of
> > known stable fixes), as hipster is currently going sidewards
> > with all the changes to gcc, it will probably not stabilize
> > within the next two months, and a7 is mostly rock stable
> > (with a few user visible problems due to the png12 <--> png14
> > hassles).
> >
> >
> >
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