On Mar 1, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Sudha Ponnaganti <sudha.ponnaga...@citrix.com> wrote:
> Chip, > > Can anyone from IST or Europe time zone be given rights to approve patch / > check in. We have sizable QA Team in IST Time zone. > Builds are breaking quite frequently and blockers need to be resolved within > hours like last night. I was just thinking about the exact same thing! Any volunteer to be the 4.1 committer for my sleep hours? > > Thanks > /sudha > > -----Original Message----- > From: prasanna [mailto:srivatsav.prasa...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Prasanna > Santhanam > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 1:01 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [ACS41] 4.1 branch moving to "limited updates only" after today > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:56:05PM +0530, Chip Childers wrote: >> Everyone should know this by now, but our schedule has us shifting to >> a model where we limit the commits going into the 4.1 branch to a very >> few. >> >> Now we have some serious bugs still outstanding, which is challenging >> to say the least. That being said, I'd suggest that we don't change >> the plan. Stabilizing the 4.1 branch should be our focus, and that >> means that we have to be very selective about what commits go into it >> moving forward. >> >> I'll ask that, as of the end of the day today, anyone with a commit >> that they want cherry-picked into 4.1 (or a patch, if conflicts are >> expected) please send an email to the list with the following tags: >> >> [ACS41][Patch Request] - Followed by a reasonable description (or the bug >> ID). >> >> I'll be watching the list and applying them as soon as I can. >> >> However - I'd suggest a couple of things: >> >> First, you need to *test* the fix. I'd actually ask that we take this >> a bit further than unit testing the fix. If there's a bug reporter, >> give them the patch and have them build from 4.1 with the patch applied... >> before asking to move it into the branch officially. This does effect >> the process that the Citrix QA team is used to following, but I think >> it's the best option for us as a community. >> >> Second, I need help ensuring that the commit to cherry-pick applies >> cleanly to the 4.1 branch. If you do the first thing, this should be >> easy... but I'll highlight this anyway. If it's going to have >> conflicts, then you should be providing a patch that already deals >> with the conflicts. Patches like this should be in the email itself, >> or in reviewboard. >> >> So this is what I'd *like* to see - starting tomorrow. >> >> Objections? Comments? Concerns? >> >> -chip > > +1 - Sorry I just saw this and made a fix without the aforementioned > patch request. So I'll take it that this applies from Mar 1st 2013, in one's > respective timezone. > > -- > Prasanna., >
