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

[Adam Miller <maxamillion fedoraproject org>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Jason Brooks <jbrooks redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Adam Miller
> <maxamillion fedoraproject org> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>     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.
>>
>> 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 vote for this option, slip a week, reset the clock.

+1 - This one is my preference as well.

-AdamM

>
> Jason
>
>>
>> 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
>>