Re: [atomic-devel] Fedora 24 Based Two-Week Atomic Release Delayed - Feedback Requested

[Dusty Mabe <dusty dustymabe com>]

On 06/21/2016 12:21 PM, Adam Miller wrote:
> Hello all,

Hey Adam,

>     The original schedule for today's Fedora Two-Week Atomic Release
> was going to include a cut-over of our back end Release Infrastructure
> and AutoCloud automated QA environment to be compose based (one of the
> building blocks we need in place to make the future of the release
> process more flexible). However, because of the most recent Fedora 24
> release slip this has caused a conflict of schedules (a schedule that
> was agreed upon at the Cloud FAD a few weeks ago) and as a side effect
> of the Fedora 24 GA event we are currently in a Fedora Infrastructure
> Freeze. During this Freeze, we can not make the back end changes
> needed to cut over to the new versions of the RelEng Composer and
> AutoCloud which are currently hosting the Fedora 24 Atomic Images.

Thanks for the update.

> 
> This is something that slipped through the cracks and ultimately lands
> on me, and for that I would like to apologize to members of Project
> Atomic, Fedora Cloud WG, and both project communities at large.
> 
> That being said, we have a couple of options on how to handle this and
> I would like to request feedback from others.
> 
> We can slip the Fedora 24 Based Two-Week Atomic Release by 1 week just
> as the Fedora 24 GA Release was slipped and target next Tuesday
> (2016-06-21). This would "reset the clock" on the Two Week Releases
> and we will then have a Two-Week Release every two weeks following
> that one.

I would vote for this one.

If we go this path could we link here to a candidate 2WA image that we would 
release next Tuesday? We could then focus some manual testing on this image and
make sure we are A OK for next weeks release.

> 
> Or
> 
> We can skip this Two-Week Atomic Release all together and target the
> next Two-Week Atomic Release scheduled date of Tuesday 2016-07-05.
> 
> Or
> 
> We can release a Fedora 23 Based Two-Week Atomic image today (or
> tomorrow, pending how fast feedback rolls in) and target the next
> Two-Week Release window as the time to cut over to Fedora 24.
> 
> I'm open to alternate suggestions but do note that aspects of the Two
> Week release process are limiting at present, which is something this
> new Infrastructure deployment will be the starting point to resolve,
> so there may be restrictions on how creative of a solution we can come
> up with in the near term.
> 
> Once again, I would like to apologize to all who have been impacted by
> this and we hope that with the planned changes to the Infrastructure
> and the Release code will allow for more flexibility in the future.
> 
> Thank you,
> -AdamM
>