William, could you please raise this at the team leads meeting tonight on my behalf. The steps look quite straight forward, they just need to go on a card and get done.
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:53 PM, William Reade <william.re...@canonical.com> wrote: > +1 > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Andrew Wilkins > <andrew.wilk...@canonical.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 3:08 PM, David Cheney <david.che...@canonical.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> This is a proposal that we raise the minimum Go spec from Go 1.1 to Go >>> 1.2. >>> >>> Motivation: >>> >>> * Now that T is out, we have to support Juju on two series (Precise >>> and Trusty[1]) with two compilers, gc and gccgo. >>> * gccgo-4.9, which is version we using in trusty, supports the Go 1.2 >>> spec >>> * gc-1.1.2 which is available in a ppa for precise, obviously supports Go >>> 1.1 >>> * gc-1.2.1 is the shipping compiler on Trusty, it supports Go 1.2 >>> >>> So now we have three compilers, two versions of gc, and one of gccgo. >>> >>> We are in the situation where code written for gccgo under T on ppc64 >>> or armv8 will not pass the bot running Go 1.1.1. >>> >>> For this reason I would like to reduce this matrix. >>> >>> Recommendation: >>> >>> * Get the trusty compiler into a backport ppa for precise[1] >>> * Upgrade the bot to use that compiler, raising the minimum compiler >>> spec to 1.2 across the board >> >> >> SGTM. The bot will be changing soon to a Jenkins lander; seems like an >> opportune time for making the change. >> >>> >>> Thoughts / Discussion / Spoiled fruit ? >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> [1] I am ignoring the intermediate, non LTS series', as there are no >>> charms for them, nor do CTS offer support for them. If this is >>> unacceptable, anything which applies to Precise wrt. backports, also >>> applies to Q, R and S. >>> >>> -- >>> Juju-dev mailing list >>> Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev >> >> >> >> -- >> Juju-dev mailing list >> Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev >> > -- Juju-dev mailing list Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev
