On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 10:02:29AM -0400, Hugh Brock wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:53:17AM -0400, Mike Orazi wrote: > > On 10/05/2012 10:15 AM, Hugh Brock wrote: > > >On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 09:04:13AM -0500, Steve Linabery wrote: > > >>Hi aeolus community, > > >> > > >>The current upstream development sprint officially ends on Thursday, > > >>11-Oct-2012. > > >> > > >>In an ideal world all patches would be on list by COB on Monday. All > > >>patches should be reviewed and pushed by Tuesday. This gives us a little > > >>breathing room for testing before the demo. > > >> > > >>Thank you in advance for your cooperation! > > >>Steve|eggs > > > > > >Hmmm... Have we forgotten about the week we said we were going to give > > >QE to test the upstream code before the demos? I thought that was a > > >permanent part of the process now. > > > > > >--Hugh > > > > > > > > > I have to apologize here. I asked Steve to coordinate and send this > > notification out so we could close the door on the present sprint > > and start again. > > > > While we have been striving to have QE to be more involved in each > > upstream sprint priorities dictated that most of the the usual > > suspects spend their time in other areas this sprint. As those > > commitments appear to be wrapping up, I think we'll see a lot more > > involvement in the next several sprints. > > > > Overall though, I think this really does speak to the idea that the > > quality of the project is a shared responsibility and it is really > > important that everyone takes a little of the burden on themselves > > to make sure we maintain working, testable, tested code. > > OK. No problem this time, but: I think it is really, really important > that in future sprints we maintain the idea of having a freeze well > before the end of the sprint (5-7 days) to allow for testing by whomever > is charged with testing. I think this is a key part of having working > software at the end of the sprint... and if we don't have working > software at the end of the sprint, then we are doing something wrong. > > --Hugh > > -- > == Hugh Brock, [email protected] == > == Engineering Manager, Cloud BU == > == Aeolus Project: Manage virtual infrastructure across clouds. == > == http://aeolusproject.org == > > "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m > not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." > --Robert McCloskey
Violent agreement here. Steve
