[oi-dev] Release engineering // planing

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 11/07/2013 20:33, Piotr Jasiukajtis wrote:
> I think an updated illumos-gate packages should go into oi_151a7 first, because of NFS related BUG fix #2986.

Agreed, most NFS fixes up to now are also very interesting to us,
and illumos gate has a good peer review to trust it to be stable.

>
> 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).

On 11/07/2013 22:06, Jonathan Adams wrote:
 > 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.

At least before a stable release is in sight, a /dev repository
is a good temporary testbed before rolling out, it can select
only the more stable stuff to test, and can rest for a while
after the actual release.


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