[oi-dev] Release engineering // planing

[Christopher Chan]

samba needs to be updated from 3.5.8 before it can be considered good 
enough for /release.


On Friday, July 12, 2013 09:47 PM, ken mays wrote:
>
> Good points. So, a major question: Is /dev good enough for /release 
> promotion?
>
> Any known or reported issues to resolve beforehand?
>
> ~ Ken Mays
>
>
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> *From: * G B <g_patrickb at yahoo.com>;
> *To: * OpenIndiana Developer mailing list <oi-dev at openindiana.org>;
> *Subject: * Re: [oi-dev] Release engineering // planing
> *Sent: * Fri, Jul 12, 2013 11:49:21 AM
>
> /hipster should be the -current like FreeBSD
> /dev should be -stable like FreeBSD
> /release or /stable should be -RELEASE like FreeBSD
>
> /hipster can keep having its breakage, that is fine.  But what I'd see 
> is /dev get illumos-gate updates and tested and when no problems are 
> found and it is stable, then get promoted to /release, and keep this 
> cycle.
>
> Thus, /dev and /release will be sunstudio, but I don't know how one 
> can get /hipster promoted to /dev because of gcc.
>
> I guess it could be that /hipster always stays out there as a -current 
> while /dev and /release stay with sunstudio because right now /dev is 
> most rock-solid and that should not be taken away. While /hipster has 
> newer packages available, if someone is on /dev or /release there are 
> other options rather than trying to get what is in /hipster.  
> opencsw.org has many current packages available, so anyone using /dev 
> and /release can get them from opencsw.org.
>
>
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> *From:* ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com>
> *To:* OpenIndiana Developer mailing list <oi-dev at openindiana.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2013 4:30 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [oi-dev] Release engineering // planing
>
> Agreed.
>
> I'd suggest the same for the '07/2013 RELEASE' to at least update /dev 
> repo
> to the current "approved" /hipster Illumos-gate snapshot before 
> pushing to /release.
>
> You could respin the oi_151a7 ISO with that recent Illumos_gate 
> snapshot so people can still test the Illumos_gate snapshot for 
> current issues. (oi_151a7.1)
>
> The /hipster oi-userland changes should get pushed to /dev from that 
> point with the same snapshot of Illumos_gate from /release. You then 
> update the Illumos builds from that point of reference.
>
> Example:
>
> /release= /dev
> Illumos_gate_47f42be153c1 +
> oi_151a7 (old /dev repo)
>
> new /dev = /hipster
> Illumos_gate_47f42be153c1 +
> OI-JDS_2b18d0590968 +
> oi-userland (s12_26)
> (whatever else)
>
> ~ Ken Mays
>
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> *From:* Piotr Jasiukajtis <estibi at me.com>
> *To:* OpenIndiana Developer mailing list <oi-dev at openindiana.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:33 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [oi-dev] Release engineering // planing
>
> 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 <javascript:return>> 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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