On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:48:50AM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote: > > But there have been some significant patches added to 3.1.1 including a > fix for a segfault in gmetad.
and a fix for tcpconn failures and errors as well as spelled in the release notes from the STATUS file. > Due mainly to the segfault patch, I am proposing that we tag and roll a > testing tarball of 3.1.1 within the next week agree, but even if we agreed before to the process of releasing requiring a tag and a stable package, I suspect (specially based on the recent history with 3.1.0) that the process will be instead : * release a snapshot package for testing (3.1.0.1696?) and wait for feedback * tag 3.1.1 (hopefully after no changes were required from the testing cycle and except for the required changes in configure to make it a stable package) and then wait for the 2 weeks. > with a goal of shipping 3.1.1 two weeks after the tag. I am not sure about the two weeks here either, as the last release cycle had shown can't be that effective in finding bugs, probably because of the complexity of setting up a ganglia test environment or to the fact that no much testing is being done anyway, because we haven't provided for clear guidelines on what needs to be tested. and which should include at least : * which platform are you testing it on (OS name and version), which architecture (CPU type and bitness), do you have binary packages provided to use, do they work? * does the ganglia package build from source in your platform? does also gmetad? does it provide for loadable modules and static builds or only static builds? does it build python module support? any warnings reported when building it? * after building it, does gmond -m provide a list of available modules? * if python module support was enabled, can a simple python module be loaded and used? does tcpconn.py work stable? * if upgrading from an older version of ganglia (not including 3.1.0) does the configuration converter (for 2.5) or manual update (for 3.0) produce an equivalent working configuration? * if able to update (or setup for testing) two or more gmond are they able to work together and report valid metrics for a cluster?, do they work OK using multicast, unicast or both. * can your new 3.1.1 gmetad be configured to pull data from your existing environment without problems or misreporting metrics when compared with your current gmetad? * can you use 3.1.1 in a hierarchical dispatcher configuration with your current gmetad?, if able to upgrade (or setup for testing) two 3.1.1 gmetad can they be configured in a hierarchical dispatcher configuration? * do gmond or gmetad work reliably (not crashing or needing a restart) during the test window, is the memory utilization stable and CPU load under the expected values when compared with your current production environment? * is there anything else you had found during your test cycle that you would like to be addressed?, is it something that worked before and doesn't now (a regression)? Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
