On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki <
zygmunt.kryni...@linaro.org> wrote:

> Hi there.
>
> The validation team has a new edge website, http://edge.validation.linaro.
> **org/ <http://edge.validation.linaro.org/> that reflects the development
> trunk of all of our components. This site can be used to check latest
> development effort, test bug fixes and, to some degree, use new features.
>
> This website mimics the concept of now-defunct edge.launchpad.net. That
> is, it allows for new code to run on top of the production database.
>
> This has important ramifications:
>
> 1) Unsafe code could cause data loss
> 2) New features that depend on database schema modifications cannot be
> tested this way.
> 3) Non-website features such as dispatcher and part of the scheduler cannot
> be tested this way.
>
> For addressing those we will soon deploy staging.validation.linaro.orgthat 
> works on a periodic snapshot of the production database.
>
> I will be posting an update with instructions on how to replicate this
> setup if necessary and details about the periodic automatic roll out/upgrade
> procedure.
>
>
Thanks for the heads up.

I wonder, once we have staging.v.l.o, do we really need edge anymore?

What problems does edge protect us from that we really care about? Maybe we
can avoid running 3 instead of two instances and have 3 instead of 2 code
rollout stages?

-- 

 - Alexander
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