Postmortem and lessons learned for Linaro's release 2012.03

 https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1203/Release/Review


Highlights and Key Successes
============================

The 12.03 release saw the debut of the refurbished Linaro Website with
a new content management system that makes creating user content much
easier and faster.

Development continues to hit deliverable targets with the teams
continuing to generate build for platform LEBs and working groups.
Linux Linaro under the Ubuntu Developer Platform premiered and will
become the baseline on which deliveries will be made. The big.LITTLE
Switcher project has launched and is going well with Platform
enablement and some Test runs/automation in place.

Pre-built release images for the Android and Ubuntu LEBs are currenly
available with each of the Linaro monthly releases; however, new with
the Linaro 12.03 release is that now developers can get daily
pre-builds of the Ubuntu LEB which will be based on the current
release of Ubuntu. Pre-built images can be found at
snapshots.linaro.org.


Postmortem and Lessons Learned
==============================

On the heels of a very short release cycle came one of the longest
release cycles. Many more blueprints and effort came out of the longer
cycle. The length of the cycle allowed team members to focus and
increase their productivity.

Some issues were highlighted that need to be addressed. Jenkins
scripting was offline for a week affecting CI jobs during release
week. LAVA continues to have some instabilities. There needs to be
some sort of backup or redundancy for Jenkins scripts so that builds
are not offline for an extended period. Testing should not solely rely
on LAVA. In the event of LAVA issues, other testing methods should be
employed.


-- 
David Zinman
Linaro Release Manager | Project Manager
Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs

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