Chip, Can anyone from IST or Europe time zone be given rights to approve patch / check in. We have sizable QA Team in IST Time zone. Builds are breaking quite frequently and blockers need to be resolved within hours like last night.
Thanks /sudha -----Original Message----- From: prasanna [mailto:srivatsav.prasa...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Prasanna Santhanam Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 1:01 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [ACS41] 4.1 branch moving to "limited updates only" after today On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:56:05PM +0530, Chip Childers wrote: > Everyone should know this by now, but our schedule has us shifting to > a model where we limit the commits going into the 4.1 branch to a very > few. > > Now we have some serious bugs still outstanding, which is challenging > to say the least. That being said, I'd suggest that we don't change > the plan. Stabilizing the 4.1 branch should be our focus, and that > means that we have to be very selective about what commits go into it > moving forward. > > I'll ask that, as of the end of the day today, anyone with a commit > that they want cherry-picked into 4.1 (or a patch, if conflicts are > expected) please send an email to the list with the following tags: > > [ACS41][Patch Request] - Followed by a reasonable description (or the bug ID). > > I'll be watching the list and applying them as soon as I can. > > However - I'd suggest a couple of things: > > First, you need to *test* the fix. I'd actually ask that we take this > a bit further than unit testing the fix. If there's a bug reporter, > give them the patch and have them build from 4.1 with the patch applied... > before asking to move it into the branch officially. This does effect > the process that the Citrix QA team is used to following, but I think > it's the best option for us as a community. > > Second, I need help ensuring that the commit to cherry-pick applies > cleanly to the 4.1 branch. If you do the first thing, this should be > easy... but I'll highlight this anyway. If it's going to have > conflicts, then you should be providing a patch that already deals > with the conflicts. Patches like this should be in the email itself, > or in reviewboard. > > So this is what I'd *like* to see - starting tomorrow. > > Objections? Comments? Concerns? > > -chip +1 - Sorry I just saw this and made a fix without the aforementioned patch request. So I'll take it that this applies from Mar 1st 2013, in one's respective timezone. -- Prasanna.,
