Re: [atomic-devel] Need owner of Atomic 2 Week releases

["Brian (bex) Exelbierd" <bex pobox com>]

> On Nov 13, 2015, at 5:47 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm redhat com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Amanda Carter <acarter redhat com> wrote:
>> Hey folks, creating a separate thread for this longer term discussion. We're getting ready to release our first 2 week atomic update on Tuesday and Dusty Mabe has raised 2 potential release blockers that were not part of automated testing. It's good that he caught them, but it's also a bit of a stroke of luck. Since there is no official QE for this release, who should own verifying that there are no release blocking bugs prior to every automated release and escalating if there are? If no one raises the blocker, we'll have no way to block the release.
> 
> Other than adding "making sure that anything found manually gets tests
> added so it doesn't reoccur", I don't have much to add to this except
> for saying that I also recognize the need.
> 
> Paul Frields tells me that no one on his team (Fedora Infrastructure
> Engineering) is in the right position to do this overall. That team --
> along with Fedora Release Engineering -- has been working on making
> sure that the release artifacts get constructed, but aren't experts in
> what goes _in_ them. (It's nice that we're at the point where the
> problems are on the inside, I guess!)
> 
> I think it needs to be someone who is deeply connected to the teams
> working on Atomic development, but who is also given this is a core
> responsibility and guaranteed the time for making sure things work in
> Fedora specifically.

This is a very small community of people to choose from.  Can we figure out a way to skew this so that we can ramp someone up?  For example, I would consider offering to help, and I think my manager would give me some time to do the work, but I am not connected to all of these Fedora teams.  If we find someone who is deep in 1-2 teams have some committed folks to ramp them up we can both solve this problem and grow our number of people able to do this kind of work.

regards,

bex