Hi all, As a follow-up from a recent discussion on Matrix/IRC, I'm proposing the following change to the development cycle / release schedule:
"Koji builds are blocked while mass branching and updates-testing enablement are in progress." That's it, that's the entire RFC. Roughly every six months, I run a check for updates that are present in the current "stable" release, but missing from "branched", and every six months, there's a non-negligible number of builds and / or bodhi updates that get stuck in a void because they just happened to have been run at the exact worst moment. In my opinion, the benefits of implementing this change (less releng time spent on fixing builds that are stuck in an inconsistent state) would outweigh the downsides (two windows of a few hours each during the early development cycle where no builds can be launched). Issues that I see with builds that just "happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time" fall broadly into two categories (though I have seen other types of problems that are more rare): 1. Builds launched while the mass branching is in progress have the fcXX (where XX = old-rawhide / branched) dist-tag, but only gets tagged with fXY (XY = new-rawhide) by koji. This results in them only being available in the rawhide repos, and not from "branched" at all. Just resubmitting the build for "branched" doesn't work, because the wrong dist-tag causes NVR conflicts. Fixing this requires either releng intervention (useless busywork) or bumping the release and submitting new builds for *both rawhide and branched* (waste of resources). 2. Builds launched just before updates-testing enablement can get stuck in "testing" state before there is an actual updates-testing repo, and are hence not available from *any* repository (for testing?) during the beta freeze, but will get pushed to stable afterwards. This results in users who want to test the beta release (or "pre-beta" with updates-testing enabled) to not see these updates at all, but they will be pushed to "stable" immediately after the beta freeze is lifted (i.e. without *any* amount of testing). Fabio _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
