Re: [libvirt] Release of libvirt 0.8.6
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 05:47:01AM +1100, Justin Clift wrote:
On 02/12/2010, at 5:26 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 02/12/2010 alle 02.47 +1100, Justin Clift ha scritto:
>>
>> Looks like it might be time to put some kind of regression testing in
>> place, as a go/no-go release criteria.
>
> May I suggest a 1-week (or less) window without merge of new
> features/improvements, announced on a separate (low-traffic) mailinglist
> for packagers to test the release?
>
> We'd then have time to test whether the code is fine for all of us or
> not.
Concept wise, do you reckon something like this would work:
+ a new libvirt-announce mailing list, low trafic, purely for release
announcements and similar
Along with us announcing a '"release candidate" build through it (instead
of the
present approach). If it looks good after a period of time (a week or something
as you mentioned), then it gets re-released as the actual release.
If something turns up significantly broken, then we respin as a release candidate
2 and repeat the process.
I think this is really viable, because it implies we need another
week prior to creating the pre-release where we do what we currently
do with pre-release stabalization. With a monthly release cycle,
taking 2 weeks todo a release is too much of an time sink.
IMHO, we need to have
- A official list of supported platforms / OS combinations
- Run a test build on each combination before release
- Actually follow the 'bug fixes' only rule leading upto release
no matter how simple the new feature might appear.
Daniel