Change request in the SRU process of docker.io group

Lucas Kanashiro kanashiro at ubuntu.com
Fri Apr 8 19:28:27 UTC 2022


Em 08/04/2022 16:24, Steve Langasek escreveu:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 04:15:19PM -0300, Lucas Kanashiro wrote:
>>>>> While the new language reads much nicer, one nuance that's been lost in the
>>>>> process is the idea that we don't SRU the .0 releases but wait until they've
>>>>> had a chance to fix bugs and stabilize things with a .1.  Is this a
>>>>> deliberate change, and if so, what has changed in terms of upstream practice
>>>>> or our QA that makes us think this is no longer a requirement?
>>>> Yes, the change to also accept .0 releases is what triggered this
>>>> request (in this case a .0 release of runc). After talking to tianon,
>>>> the part to avoid .0 releases was meant to be for docker.io mostly,
>>>> which at the time was not stable enough, however, this made runc get not
>>>> approved.
>>>> Regarding docker.io QA, this is more an upstream work, they have
>>>> received multiple incentives to improve the quality of their release and
>>>> since a while they are quite stable. If we prefer we can keep that
>>>> policy to avoid the backport of .0 releases of docker.io, and relax this
>>>> for containerd and runc which are more stable in general than docker.io.
>>> If docker.io is still providing regular point releases such that waiting for
>>> the .1 will not be a big problem for SRUing, then the above would be my
>>> preference.
>> Awesome. I edited the DockerUpdates wiki page to clarify that .0
>> releases of docker.io will not be backported but .0 releases of
>> containerd and runc are eligible for backporting. Could you check if it
>> is good enough now?
> Yes, this looks great, thanks!  Please update the StableReleaseUpdates page
> to remove the disclaimer.  (Unfortunately, I'm having authentication
> problems with wiki.ubuntu.com at the moment...)
Done. Thank you so much for reviewing and approving it!

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Lucas Kanashiro




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