On Fri, 2018-06-01 at 06:38 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > At this morning's release meeting (minutes coming soon from John), > > we > > briefly discussed the state of the regression testing for stable > > releases and agreed we need to formalise the process. > > > > At the moment we have a firm commitment from Intel and Mellanox to > > test > > all stable branches (and if I heard correctly from NXP as well? > > Please > > confirm!). AT&T committed to run regressions on the 16.11 branch. > > > > Here's what we need in order to improve the quality of the stable > > releases process: > > > > 1) More commitments to help from other companies involved in the > > DPDK > > community. At the cost of re-stating the obvious, improving the > > quality > > of stable releases is for everyone's benefit, as a lot of customers > > and > > projects rely on the stable or LTS releases for their production > > environments. > > > > 2) A formalised deadline - the current proposal is 10 days from the > > "xx.yy patches review and test" email, which was just sent for > > 16.11. > > For the involved companies, please let us know if 10 days is > > enough. In > > terms of scheduling, this period will always start within a week > > from > > the mainline final release. Again, the signal is the "xx.yy patches > > review and test" appearing in the inbox, which will detail the > > deadline. > > > > > > Hi Luca, > I discussed with Thomas about it. > I don't know how much extra effort for the stable maintainers it > would be, > but I wonder if there could be a XX.YY.z-rc tarball. > That would be > a) a more clear sign what people are used to test > b) easier to integrate as I assume quite a bunch of tests will > usually > start rebasing on tarballs instead of directly from git. > > If you think everyone can derive from git easily I'm fine, I just > wondered > if a proper -rc tarball might be more comfortable for the testing > entities. > > cu > Christian
I think that's a good idea, and something we can consider for the next release cycle - the tools to push rc to mainline should work just the same for the stable repo. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
