Chip, In the future, we should. If we were doing this right (which we aren't today), each RC build should come with release notes about what QA has found to be problems. I think what you're putting up right now are more closer to nightly unstable builds than RC builds.
The good news is that the quality has been pretty good so even the nightly unstable builds are good. Today, that's mostly due to the majority features in this release came from Citrix and were already tested by Citrix. For future releases, we should follow a process of QA completes 100% testing and that's a RC build while there's nightly builds for people who are actually developing if they're interested. --Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 8:14 PM > To: <cloudstack-us...@incubator.apache.org> > Cc: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [AFSCS40] Release status for CS 4.0 > > Alex, > > I've been cutting "RC" source code bundles, and have been numbering them > as RCx (Wednesday will be RC3). > > Do you think I should switch to a more informal scheme until we have > something to vote on officially? > > - chip > > Sent from my iPhone. > > On Sep 24, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I've been reminded that I've neglected to update the community on the > current status for CloudStack 4.0. I apologize for that oversight. From now > til > the actual release, I will give a daily update on the status. If you feel > anything > is missing, please let me know and I'll try to include them on the next > update. > > > > Summary > > As of 9/24/2012, CloudStack 4.0 release has past code freeze stage (over > three weeks ago). A source code branch has been forked and is called 4.0. > Nightly build is running on Jenkins on the 4.0 build. > > > > Feature List > > There are two features that missed the 4.0 release. Auto-Scaling and > Brocade Plugin. Both are due to having significant code changes due past the > code freeze date. > > > > Code Readiness > > - There are ~5 code related reviews on the review board scheduled for 4.0. > Most of them are waiting for review and commit. > > - There are <10 bugs on Jira for the first cut of the release. > > - Upgrade from previous versions is currently being worked on. Scheduled > to be done by the end of the week. > > > > License Readiness > > - Majority of the VM configuration issues have been resolved. There is one > remaining wrt rsyslog.conf. Thanks to Chiradeep and Chip. > > - Technology export issues are still be worked on by David Nalley and AFS > legal. This may be a blocking issue. > > - Licenses need auditing. > > > > Doc Readiness > > The current plan for docs is to write an INSTALL.TXT to give instructions on > how to install from source. All docs will be generated to a living document > that continues to improve past the release. The link to this living document > is > to be determined. > > > > TODO: Docs need help on the new features in the 4.0 release. Specifically > we need help with Niciria Integration and Caringo documentation. > > > > QA Status > > QA is proceeding through the test cycle. It is currently at 45% of > > completion. > The number of bugs generated from the tests have been minimum so the > quality of the release currently looks pretty good. > > > > Release Plan > > - The current plan is for QA to complete its test cycle between 9/26-9/28. > > - When QA decides the test cycle is read, we will cut a RC1 release. > > - We are currently pushing to clear bugs generated from the test cycle asap. > > - After all P1 and P2 bugs are cleared, 4.0 release will be submitted for > approval to announce. > > > > --Alex > > > >
