Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-25 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > > > > On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 10:21 +0100, drago01 wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Stephen Gallagher > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yeah, that's a valid concern and one I'm not ignoring. I'm just > > > concerned that (going by F21 Alpha and Beta) the "hero

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-25 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 10:21 +0100, drago01 wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Stephen Gallagher > wrote: > > > > > > Yeah, that's a valid concern and one I'm not ignoring. I'm just > > concerned that (going by F21 Alpha and Beta) the "hero testing" doesn't > > result in avoiding a slip

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-25 Thread drago01
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > Yeah, that's a valid concern and one I'm not ignoring. I'm just > concerned that (going by F21 Alpha and Beta) the "hero testing" doesn't > result in avoiding a slip most of the time. In the case of Alpha, that > was going on for a mo

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-24 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 10:02 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > These new rules don't ban "preventing a slip", they attempt to eliminate > > the unreasonable demands we're putting on our volunteer QA team *every > > week during Freeze*. It's gotten out of hand and it's burn

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Stephen Gallagher wrote: > These new rules don't ban "preventing a slip", they attempt to eliminate > the unreasonable demands we're putting on our volunteer QA team *every > week during Freeze*. It's gotten out of hand and it's burning people > out. > > The primary problem is that when we slip, t

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-17 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 23:45 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Matthew Miller wrote: > > Kevin, I'm missing something here. You're right that the QA hero runs > > are done to prevent slips, but I'm not seeing the logical connection > > between what Stephen suggests and _banning_ them. The idea is to m

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Miller wrote: > Kevin, I'm missing something here. You're right that the QA hero runs > are done to prevent slips, but I'm not seeing the logical connection > between what Stephen suggests and _banning_ them. The idea is to make > them less likely to be necessary with the cooparation of pac

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 03:26:50AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > I talked to several people over the last couple days about what we can > > do to try to avoid the "hero testing" treadmill that we've been on > > during every Freeze in recent memory (specifically that we're usually > > fixing Blocke

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 11:17 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > I talked to several people over the last couple days about what we can > do to try to avoid the "hero testing" treadmill that we've been on > during every Freeze in recent memory (specifically that we're usually > fixing Blocker bugs unt

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Stephen Gallagher wrote: > I talked to several people over the last couple days about what we can > do to try to avoid the "hero testing" treadmill that we've been on > during every Freeze in recent memory (specifically that we're usually > fixing Blocker bugs until the day before the Go/No-Go meet

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-10-31 Thread Michael Catanzaro
This policy change seems like a really good idea. Thanks for working on it, Stephen. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedora

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-10-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 14:44:06 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Well, we learned during those questions that it's a matter of coordination with the mirrors. They expect to have our master trees prepared at certain times or they can't be mirrored out in time for the Tuesday launches. So really

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-10-31 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 10:34 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:17:39 -0400, > Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > >The idea here is to ensure that there is a clear engineering deadline in > >order to guarantee that the QA team has a reasonable time period in > >which to per

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-10-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:17:39 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: The idea here is to ensure that there is a clear engineering deadline in order to guarantee that the QA team has a reasonable time period in which to perform validation tests. I think this approach is too risky this late in the F