I think it would be a "good to have" point (maybe not a blocker).
I will propose a release guide PR about this tomorrow.

Regards
JB

Le 1 mars 2018 à 09:09, à 09:09, Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com> a écrit:
>Should we change release policy so that the validation tests are
>required
>to pass on a release candidate as a requirement for the release to be
>approved?
>
>If so, we should update the release guide saying so.
>
>On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 7:00 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net>
>wrote:
>
>> Cool, thanks !
>>
>> Maybe at least a note to run nexmark on every RC to compare the
>results
>> with
>> previous releases is interesting.
>>
>> Regards
>> JB
>>
>> On 03/01/2018 02:02 AM, Alan Myrvold wrote:
>> > Thanks for the feedback.  Yifan and I have automated the Java
>> quickstarts for
>> > apex, direct, dataflow, flink local and spark [1] and automated
>python
>> release
>> > validation [2]. Yifan is working on fixing the Java mobile
>archetype and
>> > validating the mobile example. The spark quickstart automation came
>in
>> late, but
>> > identified the [BEAM-3668] issue in RC2.
>> >
>> > The Java quickstarts are now running daily with the snapshot
>release [3]
>> and are
>> > parameterized to make it easy to run with the next RC candidate.
>> >
>> > Hope these help make the next release smoother. Open to ideas for
>other
>> areas to
>> > automate.
>> >
>> > [1]
>https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/master/release/src/main/groovy
>> > [2]
>> > https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/release/src/
>> main/groovy/run_release_candidate_python_validation.sh
>> > [3] https://builds.apache.org/view/A-D/view/Beam/job/beam_
>> PostRelease_NightlySnapshot/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:54 AM Lukasz Cwik <lc...@google.com
>> > <mailto:lc...@google.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Validating the release by following quickstarts being a manual
>> process I
>> >     believe is still the largest pain point:
>> >     * We missed that the archetypes were missing the mobile gaming
>> examples.
>> >     * The tcnative dependency conflict that we needed to cut RC2
>for.
>> >
>> >     Overall much smoother then the prior release but still a good
>amount
>> of
>> >     manual steps involved.
>> >
>> >     On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Reuven Lax <re...@google.com
>> >     <mailto:re...@google.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >         Thanks for fixing the manual cleanup issue! This is
>something we
>> kept
>> >         punting on in previous releases.
>> >
>> >
>> >         On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:14 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <
>> j...@nanthrax.net
>> >         <mailto:j...@nanthrax.net>> wrote:
>> >
>> >             Hi Alan,
>> >
>> >             Honestly,  it was an easy and smooth release, similar
>to
>> other
>> >             Apache project
>> >             release.
>> >
>> >             Maybe the points where we could a little bit improve
>are:
>> >
>> >             1. The website update was pretty long as @asfgit merge
>> didn't work
>> >             (due to a out
>> >             of sync on the github mirror). I think the website
>publish
>> PR can be
>> >             automatized.
>> >             2. Upload to pylib required manual action (like
>renaming the
>> files)
>> >
>> >             Thanks to the change I did on the assembly, the
>artifacts
>> don't
>> >             require any
>> >             manual cleanup (whereas it was the case in previous
>release).
>> >
>> >             Regards
>> >             JB
>> >
>> >             On 02/26/2018 10:54 PM, Alan Myrvold wrote:
>> >             > Is there a list of pain points during the 2.3.0
>release and
>> >             improvements that
>> >             > can be made to the 2.4.0 release process?
>> >             >
>> >
>> >             --
>> >             Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>> >             jbono...@apache.org <mailto:jbono...@apache.org>
>> >             http://blog.nanthrax.net
>> >             Talend - http://www.talend.com
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>> jbono...@apache.org
>> http://blog.nanthrax.net
>> Talend - http://www.talend.com
>>

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