Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-25 Thread drago01
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Yeah, that's a valid concern and one I'm not ignoring. I'm just concerned that (going by F21 Alpha and Beta) the hero testing doesn't result in avoiding a slip most of the time. In the case of Alpha, that was going

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-25 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 10:21 +0100, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Yeah, that's a valid concern and one I'm not ignoring. I'm just concerned that (going by F21 Alpha and Beta) the hero testing doesn't result in avoiding a

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-25 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 10:21 +0100, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Yeah, that's a valid concern and one I'm not ignoring. I'm just concerned that (going by F21 Alpha and Beta) the hero

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-24 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 10:02 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Stephen Gallagher wrote: These new rules don't ban preventing a slip, they attempt to eliminate the unreasonable demands we're putting on our volunteer QA team *every week during Freeze*. It's gotten out of hand and it's burning

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Stephen Gallagher wrote: These new rules don't ban preventing a slip, they attempt to eliminate the unreasonable demands we're putting on our volunteer QA team *every week during Freeze*. It's gotten out of hand and it's burning people out. The primary problem is that when we slip, there

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Miller wrote: Kevin, I'm missing something here. You're right that the QA hero runs are done to prevent slips, but I'm not seeing the logical connection between what Stephen suggests and _banning_ them. The idea is to make them less likely to be necessary with the cooparation of

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 03:26:50AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: I talked to several people over the last couple days about what we can do to try to avoid the hero testing treadmill that we've been on during every Freeze in recent memory (specifically that we're usually fixing Blocker bugs

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Stephen Gallagher wrote: I talked to several people over the last couple days about what we can do to try to avoid the hero testing treadmill that we've been on during every Freeze in recent memory (specifically that we're usually fixing Blocker bugs until the day before the Go/No-Go meeting

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-11-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 11:17 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: I talked to several people over the last couple days about what we can do to try to avoid the hero testing treadmill that we've been on during every Freeze in recent memory (specifically that we're usually fixing Blocker bugs until

Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-10-31 Thread Stephen Gallagher
I talked to several people over the last couple days about what we can do to try to avoid the hero testing treadmill that we've been on during every Freeze in recent memory (specifically that we're usually fixing Blocker bugs until the day before the Go/No-Go meeting and that means that our QA

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-10-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:17:39 -0400, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: The idea here is to ensure that there is a clear engineering deadline in order to guarantee that the QA team has a reasonable time period in which to perform validation tests. I think this approach is too

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-10-31 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 10:34 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:17:39 -0400, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: The idea here is to ensure that there is a clear engineering deadline in order to guarantee that the QA team has a reasonable time period in

Re: Suggested Freeze Policy change for Fedora 22+

2014-10-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 14:44:06 -0400, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Well, we learned during those questions that it's a matter of coordination with the mirrors. They expect to have our master trees prepared at certain times or they can't be mirrored out in time for the Tuesday