Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:31:58 +0200 Kevin Kofler wrote: > I think that this is really going to break our workflow! I think it's going to help our workflow and provide our users with more stable updates. Time will tell. > For example, for the Fedora 14 under development, we now have to wait > a

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Well, this has nothing to do with that. We are currently only pushing > to stable those updates that are needed to fix Alpha release blockers > in F14. So, it wouldn't matter here. It will matter after the Alpha release when urgent dependency fixes will be withheld for 1 week

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Luke Macken wrote: >       - Minimum time-in-testing requirements >           - Every day bodhi will look for updates that have been >             in testing for N days (fedora: N=7, epel: N=14), and will >             add a comment notifying the maintainer that the

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I hope to occasionally push back a little against this. When LZMA squashfs > makes it upstream (it looks like it won't happen in time for F14) we will > probably gain about 10% on what we can fit in a given size image. It's quite sad that we're waiting for upstream there.

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > Now without any further testing the package can be pushed to stable, > which contradicts the purpose of this whole change in bodhi. Sssh, why can't you keep quiet about this?! > I think, for packages that are modified during the testing period, > this N should be calculated

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Luke Macken
On 08/12/2010 07:12 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Luke Macken wrote: >>- Minimum time-in-testing requirements >>- Every day bodhi will look for updates that have been >> in testing for N days (fedora: N=7, epel: N=14), and will >>

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Luke Macken
On 08/12/2010 07:15 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> Now without any further testing the package can be pushed to stable, >> which contradicts the purpose of this whole change in bodhi. > > Sssh, why can't you keep quiet about this?! > >> I think, for packages that are modified dur

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Luke Macken wrote: > Fixed in > https://fedorahosted.org/bodhi/changeset/97b1a9d1f9ceecaaa2128837cc5bbd7f8e495f36 That "fix" is really unhelpful and makes it a PITA to edit updates! In the past, KDE SIG has often edited in some trivial fixes into the final stable push of a KDE grouped update which

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > We've tried that in the past and it didn't work. Slipping the whole > schedule right away is better than slipping piecewise when it comes to > planning. Huh? What's the worst that can happen? That we slip again, being at the same release date as with the cascading slip sy

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > To me this implies that we should begin testing earlier (or, perhaps, > never stop testing) and treat any new failure as an event of > significance. It's tough to meet a six month cycle if we spend half of > it telling people to expect everything to be broken. We HAV

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Luke Macken wrote: >       - Minimum time-in-testing requirements >           - When someone tries to push an update to stable, bodhi will >             look to see if it has the appropriate karma, or if it has >             been in testing for more than N days. I

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > I disagree, the feature is shipping on time. Shipping on time enables > others in the Fedora community (people who build on, deploy, etc) know > with some assurance what their schedules will look like. If I were a > project manager looking at using a Linux OS in my pro

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Will Woods wrote: > This is a good point, and it's one of the reasons the 'critpath' stuff > exists. It's the same concept, applied somewhat differently: rather than > freeze the 'CoreOS' stuff earlier, we freeze it harder - we require more > testing for those pieces. The problem is, "freezing har

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: > It isn't broken so there is nothing to fix; slipping to fix issues > found is a feature not a bug. > We don't have any reason to "rush". +1 Slips DO and WILL happen. It's just a matter of fact. It also happens in other projects. We just need to accept this. If we really want to

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > The F-(x) package will have higher EVR than the F-(x+1) one. This > will break the upgrade path. Is there any measures to prevent this? No. In fact FESCo specifically refused to consider this as an issue, they say separate releases need separate testing and so they refuse

Re: Any chance the responsiveness issue-fix will be backported ?

2010-08-12 Thread Neal Becker
Linuxguy123 wrote: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQ3OQ > > I'm interested in this. I have noticed that for the past (several months?) my system would freeze at apparently random times, while disk goes busy, for periods of 20-30 seconds. This did not used to happen

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Luke Macken wrote: > Ok, so the problem here is that bodhi unpushes updates when you edit > *anything* in it. If it only unpushed an updated when you add/remove > builds from it, then this scenario would be sane. There's still the "We've been testing a new KDE release for 2-3 weeks, now we need

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > So perhaps the delay between "invasive features autorized" and "alpha" > is too short. It's true that sometimes very invasive features have been rushed in right before the feature freeze, often irrespective of the (lack of) benefits (at least at their state of developmen

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread List Troll
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Luke Macken wrote: >> Ok, so the problem here is that bodhi unpushes updates when you edit >> *anything* in it.  If it only unpushed an updated when you add/remove >> builds from it, then this scenario would be sane. > > There's still the "We'

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
List Troll wrote: > If you have been *testing* it for 2-3 weeks surely you have no problem > to find two testers to confirm the small fix? This argument has been brought up all the time. The thing is, it takes time to find people to +1 updates. It takes even longer if the people actually test th

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
I wrote: > This argument has been brought up all the time. The thing is, it takes > time to find people to +1 updates. It takes even longer if the people > actually test the updates before +1ing them (as they're expected to). This > excessive and useless QA adds delays over delays. But FWIW, when

Re: HEADS UP! Ohloh Fedora repositories

2010-08-12 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 8/12/2010 9:16, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > I'm currently in process of automatic enlisting of all ~10K Fedora Git > repos at Ohloh. Do you have some way of automatically adding new packages as they are added to Fedora in the future? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://adm

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 01:18:29 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > I hope to occasionally push back a little against this. When LZMA squashfs > > makes it upstream (it looks like it won't happen in time for F14) we will > > probably gain about 10% on what we can fit in a gi

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
I wrote: > But FWIW, when it comes to KDE in particular, the whole thing is moot or > soon to be moot anyway because parts of KDE are now being redefined as > "critical path", resulting in even more annoying update policies, even > though there was clear consensus in KDE SIG that such policies are

Outage: PHX2 network outage - 2010-08-15 01:00 UTC

2010-08-12 Thread Mike McGrath
There will be an outage starting at 2010-08-15 01:00 UTC, which will last approximately 4 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2010-08-15 01:00 UTC' Reason for outage: Network work is being done in our pr

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > We'll until Lougher writes something that Linus will accept, we need to > wait. But WHY? IMHO, an upstream tarball is just a base to apply our patches onto. We shouldn't be prisoners of upstream, especially when upstream processes are just too slow to fit our needs. Back

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler said: > IMHO, FESCo should be abolished, Fedora needs to be ruled by the SIGs! Why are you here? All you do is shout about how everything that is done is done wrong, and how you wanted to do it different but were out-voted. Why don't you go start your own distribut

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Chris Adams wrote: > Why are you here? All you do is shout about how everything that is done > is done wrong, and how you wanted to do it different but were out-voted. > Why don't you go start your own distribution? If you are right, then > you should have no trouble getting a large group of deve

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> We'll until Lougher writes something that Linus will accept, we >> need to wait. > But WHY? IMHO, an upstream tarball is just a base to apply our > patches onto. Because the kernel team doesn't agree with you, of course. This should be unsurprising

[Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC4 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Andre Robatino
Fedora 14 Alpha RC4 is now available [1]. Please refer to the following pages for download links and testing instructions. Installation: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test Desktop: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test Ideally, all

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 03:33 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: > > Why are you here? All you do is shout about how everything that is done > > is done wrong, and how you wanted to do it different but were out-voted. > > Why don't you go start your own distribution? If you are right,

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Chris Ball wrote: > This should be unsurprising, because the stated objectives of the > Fedora project as a whole don't agree with you either: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects Those same objectives say that Fedora shou

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2010 12:05 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:00:29 -0700, > Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> We usually catch most initial blockers for any given release at the >> first TC stage. Bugs we slip for are usually ones identifi

Re: The slip down memory lane

2010-08-12 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2010 12:33 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 12.08.10 13:19, Mike McGrath (mmcgr...@redhat.com) wrote: > >> Since 2006 I counted 18 slips (I think one or two of those may just be a >> single slip listed twice). Lets not yell, lets not

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

2010-08-12 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2010 10:16 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Chris Ball wrote: >> This should be unsurprising, because the stated objectives of the >> Fedora project as a whole don't agree with you either: >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives >> http://fedo

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 08/13/2010 01:23 AM, Luke Macken wrote: > On 08/12/2010 07:12 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Luke Macken wrote: >>> - Minimum time-in-testing requirements >>> - Every day bodhi will look for updates that have been >>> in testing for

"Staying close to upstream"

2010-08-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 22:26 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > Do you have any sort of proof that it's a "political" reason? It would > seem to me that our kernel maintainers do not wish to include code that > hasn't been blessed by Linus in our packages. Doing so has burned us in > the past, and perh

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 07:56 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 08/13/2010 07:11 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > Let's try that again. Fedora has no obligation to you; nothing entitles > > you (or anyone for that matter) to push updates or even to post to this > > list. > ... and people are free to ha

Re: "Staying close to upstream"

2010-08-12 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2010 10:59 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > That's why I'm so frustrated that Fedora seems to be committed > to keeping the Mozilla trademarks, which moot any discussion of whether > to deviate for those packages. But this is only my opinion. Fe

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