Fw: Daily release are now running every 4h.

[Micah Gersten]

On 08/14/2013 10:56 AM, Elfy wrote:
> On 14/08/13 15:06, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
>> This is new...
>>
>> Stephen Michael Kellat
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:48:33 +0200
>> From: Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com>
>> To: ubuntu-phone at lists.launchpad.net,  Ubuntu Development
>> <ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: Daily release are now running
>> every 4h.
>>
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Yeah, we need a better name with that cadence change. :)
>>
>> So now, the daily release process is run way more often to speed up our
>> delivery time to the baseline (every 4h). You will find more
>> information at
>> http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Release-early%2C-release-often%2C-release-every-4h%21.
>>
>>
>> The particular important piece for upstream can be summed up there:
>> * you now have a window of 4 hours before the "tick" to push stuff in
>> different trunks in a coherence piece rather than only once a day,
>> before 00 UTC.
>> * everytime there is an issue with one component/stack, a bug is
>> opened, upstream is pinged about it and we write about those on
>> https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuDk72Lpx8U5dHFtUmlPOUtCRk8zR2dtaEpIbUVhMmc#gid=3.
>>
>> We escalate after 3 days if nothing is fixed by then.
>>
>> You can find the schedule of the 4h tick here:
>> https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuDk72Lpx8U5dHFtUmlPOUtCRk8zR2dtaEpIbUVhMmc#gid=4
>>
>> (look at the X cross for when a build starts)
>>
>> I hope that will help to get faster and even more snappier and easy
>> delivery!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Didier
>>
> This is confusing as well as new.
>
> Do they mean that there is no longer a Daily to test - or that there
> will be 6 dailies daily - if you see what I mean.
>
> Elfy
>
No, this only affects the landing of packages to the Ubuntu archive that
Canonical has automated.  Daily builds are unchanged (except for Touch,
but they chose to increase their cadence).
Micah