Please lift aging requirement on gce-compute-image-packages in the stable release exception

[Balint Reczey]

Hi Robie,

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 11:09:59AM -0400, Daniel Watkins wrote:
> > One extra argument for waiving the requirement: this package does most
> > of its work on first-boot of an instance; we have to manually build new
> > GCE images specifically to be able to test it.  Users who just enable
> > -proposed and upgrade (even if they then reboot) will not be performing
> > meaningful testing of the package.
>
> Thank you for pointing this out.
>
> I think I have a difference in opinion on the other justifications given
> so far, but this one swings it for me. If it isn't meaningful to perform
> SRU verification without re-rolling the image, then +1 to waive the
> aging requirement for as long as this remains true. We still are closing
> the door, but even if we got more users participating in SRU
> verification, this wouldn't be covered without very special extra steps,
> so I think this tips the balance enough for me that I agree that we can
> skip aging in this case.
>
> I would prefer for this kind of thing to be a general SRU policy, but
> I'm too uncertain on the exact criteria to specify and whether there
> would be edge cases meeting a definition that I'd be unhappy about, so
> perhaps let's leave that until we have a few other examples and amend
> the policy specific to this package for now.

Thank you, I have updated the package's wiki page describing the
exception referencing this thread:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gce-compute-image-packages-Updates

Cheers,
Balint

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Balint Reczey
Ubuntu & Debian Developer