Release Team Members: input requested...

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Kate,

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:54:43PM -0500, Kate Stewart wrote:
> 4/12 - Final Freeze[1] - ALL fixes should go into -proposed,  and 
>       only copied into -release after review meeting.   Full
>       QA ISO testing run done at start, to identify problem cases.
>       Release team meets daily for 1/2 hour at 1600 GMT in
>       #ubuntu-release to figure out which fixes we want to 
>       include in overnight images,  and determine who is best match 
>       for reviewing them for risk/upside, and copy vs. rebuild into 
>       -release.  There should be no fixes being added, unless its
>       a fix that a member of the release team specifically  
>       requests.  Images continue to be built daily.    All packages
>       should be reviewed and built by 2300 GMT in -release, so they
>       can be included in the nightly builds.

A daily review meeting seems like a lot of overhead just to have packages
doled out for review.  Why should this be a daily meeting, as opposed to
release team members claiming packages as they come in the queue and
reviewing them immediately?

I can certainly see that we might need more coordination between team
members about what's actually going in, for you to have better control over
what's going to trigger image respins.  I just have my doubts that a meeting
is the most effective way to accomplish that.

Also, to the point in the my mail that -proposed is unnecessary overhead in
the case where we know it's not causing uninstallability and we know we're
going to take the fix: if we're asking whether to copy from -proposed vs.
rebuilding into release, that's usually a good sign we shouldn't have
used -proposed for it in the first place.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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