Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-09 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Brendan Conoboy b...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/04/2014 06:39 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: What do you think? Would this help towards the goals listed above? Would it help _other_ things? What downsides would it bring? It sounds a lot like releasing a new compose

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-08 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 20:01 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 04.12.2014 um 19:57 schrieb Adam Jackson: I think it's a bit misguided to even think of these things as related. Polish in an end-user-visible sense is itself a list of tasks and criteria that require dedicated attention, preferably

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-08 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 02:29:17 + Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 11:02:28AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: For us, that would mean

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-08 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On 12/04/2014 06:39 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: What do you think? Would this help towards the goals listed above? Would it help _other_ things? What downsides would it bring? It sounds a lot like releasing a new compose of an existing release with updates included in the repository. Why not

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-07 Thread Peter Robinson
What do you think? Would this help towards the goals listed above? Would it help _other_ things? What downsides would it bring? I think it is not useful to set up a general mechanism of alternating releases and borrow a name for it before you've discussed what concrete tasks in release

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-07 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 11:02:28AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: For us, that would mean alternating between concentrating on release features and on release engineering and QA process and tooling. During the tick,

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 20:27:37 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@znmeb.net wrote: PostgreSQL is a good example - 9.4 is in the release candidate stage right now and will probably be declared stable within a month. If it doesn't at least make it into updates-testing before F22, I'll be

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 07:25:48 +0100, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: And unfortunately, a new PostgreSQL IS incompatible, because if you just run yum update, your databases will cease to work. You have to actually dump them BEFORE doing the upgrade (or downgrade PostgreSQL for

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 22:57:50 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@znmeb.net wrote: I thought PostgreSQL fixed that a couple of years ago - upgrade in place was the most-requested feature for a long time. But I can see why DBAs wouldn't trust it after having mastered the dump-upgrade-restore

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 07:25:48 +0100, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: The updates-testing repository is only supposed to be used for packages that will eventually hit the regular updates repository. It is NOT a dumping ground for incompatible upgrades. Part of the reason for

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael DePaulo wrote: That is not part of the tick-tock proposal. That is part of the polish release proposal. I don't care how you call it. The fact remains that doing a release without taking in new upstream releases is a complete no-go from the standpoint of desktop environment

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 04:59:54AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: That is not part of the tick-tock proposal. That is part of the polish release proposal. I don't care how you call it. The fact remains that doing a release without taking in new upstream releases is a complete no-go from the

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-05 Thread poma
On 04.12.2014 15:39, Matthew Miller wrote: ... What do you think? Would this help towards the goals listed above? Would it help _other_ things? What downsides would it bring? Tip-Top is what Fedora needs. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-05 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On 12/05/2014 01:32 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: As a user/re-mixer, I don't like it. I'm at the point now where I need a rolling release. I can live with a six-month or eight-month lag between desktop updates, but I can't live without regular updates to R and R packages,

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim sali...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 12/05/2014 01:32 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: As a user/re-mixer, I don't like it. I'm at the point now where I need a rolling release. I can live with a six-month or eight-month lag between desktop

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Hughes wrote: On 4 December 2014 at 14:39, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: including holding GNOME and other showcase software to the same version. I think that would be *very* unpopular with the desktop team. And for once I think the KDE SIG and the GNOME Desktop Team will

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: PostgreSQL is a good example - 9.4 is in the release candidate stage right now and will probably be declared stable within a month. If it doesn't at least make it into updates-testing before F22, I'll be adding 9.4 from the PostgreSQL project's RPM repos or

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: And for once I think the KDE SIG and the GNOME Desktop Team will agree on something. :-) Other than the fact that LXDE doesn't use enough RAM? ;-) -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; OSJourno: Robust Power Tools for

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: And unfortunately, a new PostgreSQL IS incompatible, because if you just run yum update, your databases will cease to work. You have to actually dump them BEFORE doing the upgrade (or downgrade PostgreSQL for the dump,

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-05 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Richard Hughes wrote: On 4 December 2014 at 14:39, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: including holding GNOME and other showcase software to the same version. I think that would be *very* unpopular with the

Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Matthew Miller
While I'm waiting for an RC5 test install to complete... :) At yesterday's FESCo meeting, while discussing the Fedora 22 schedule, Stephen Gallagher suggested the idea of moving to a release schedule modeled after Intel's tick-tock model for CPUs, where they alternate between new architectures

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Richard Hughes
On 4 December 2014 at 14:39, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: including holding GNOME and other showcase software to the same version. I think that would be *very* unpopular with the desktop team. Richard -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.12.2014 um 15:46 schrieb Richard Hughes: On 4 December 2014 at 14:39, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: including holding GNOME and other showcase software to the same version. I think that would be *very* unpopular with the desktop team you should not stop read before answer

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:39:35AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: [tick tock] would mean alternating between concentrating on release features and on release engineering and QA process and tooling. During the tick, we'd focus on new features and minimize unrelated rel-eng change. During the

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread drago01
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 04.12.2014 um 15:46 schrieb Richard Hughes: On 4 December 2014 at 14:39, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: including holding GNOME and other showcase software to the same version. I think that would be

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.12.2014 um 16:48 schrieb drago01: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: +1 for the proposal in general from me because i am one of them suggesting for years that every second release should have the focus on bugfixes / polish / get large features

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:39:35 -0500, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: For us, that would mean alternating between concentrating on release features and on release engineering and QA process and tooling. During the tick, we'd focus on new features and minimize unrelated rel-eng

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Ben Cotton
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: I think when developing goals for releases we look for conflicts and defer some things where there is a potential conflict. We'd want to make sure that desired goals eventually get done and not keep deferring the same goal

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 09:39 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: What do you think? Would this help towards the goals listed above? Would it help _other_ things? What downsides would it bring? I think it is not useful to set up a general mechanism of alternating releases and borrow a name for it

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
As a user/re-mixer, I don't like it. I'm at the point now where I need a rolling release. I can live with a six-month or eight-month lag between desktop updates, but I can't live without regular updates to R and R packages, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, QGIS, the Python data science tools, etc. And I'm

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 11:02:28AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: For us, that would mean alternating between concentrating on release features and on release engineering and QA process and tooling. During the tick, we'd focus on new features and minimize unrelated rel-eng change. During the

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 09:39 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: For us, that would mean alternating between concentrating on release features and on release engineering and QA process and tooling. During the tick, we'd focus on new features and minimize unrelated rel-eng change. During the tock,

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.12.2014 um 19:57 schrieb Adam Jackson: I think it's a bit misguided to even think of these things as related. Polish in an end-user-visible sense is itself a list of tasks and criteria that require dedicated attention, preferably from someone with the breadth of experience and lack of

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Christopher
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:39:35AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: [tick tock] would mean alternating between concentrating on release features and on release engineering and QA process and tooling. During

Re: Tick-tock release cadence?

2014-12-04 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Dec 4, 2014 9:39 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: While I'm waiting for an RC5 test install to complete... :) At yesterday's FESCo meeting, while discussing the Fedora 22 schedule, Stephen Gallagher suggested the idea of moving to a release schedule modeled after Intel's