[cle-release-team] Name for current testing cycle for Sakai 10?

[Steve Swinsburg]

It would be easier to read and track if you had sakai-10.0-qa1,
sakai-10.0-qa2 etc. We know what rev each tag was created at.

cheers,
Steve


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:

> What if we used revision tags for qa names?
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> sakai-10-131740 (current revision number of trunk) , sakai-10-131772
> (making this up for illustration purposes), etc, until we reach RC tag?
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> What do you think of that? It might help us keep track of which bugs occur
> on which revisions. I think it still captures the simplicity you are after?
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> If I put out a call for testing right now, I guess I will just do it to
> the QA and Dev lists and say we are testing trunk, in preparation for Sakai
> 10 being “cut”. I would just label my current documents as Sakai 10 Trunk
> testing.
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> Thanks!
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> On Nov 19, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:
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> "Prep phase" - no.
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> As for objections, for me alpha vs beta phasing is largely a fiction.  The
> only measurable distinction between the two terms is that alpha is unlikely
> to be feature complete.  Beta by implication is feature complete (frozen)
> but is likely to include blockers.  But again, counting blocker vs
> non-blocker tickets in Jira is not exactly a rigorous measure of defect
> reduction.
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> I suggest we just tag the QA tags as  sakai-10.0-qa01, 02, 03, 04 (or
> append the revision to the tag name, e.g., sakai-10.0-qa01-r123456) . . .
> until we we are ready to issue an RC tag.  Simple.
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> If you consider absolutely necessary to provide a name for the period
> between now and the day that trunk is branched to 10.x, call it alpha.
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> Anth
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> anthony whyte | its and mlibrary | university of michigan |
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> On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:
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> I don't remember any objections to alpha, though we aren't technically in
> alpha yet, as there hasn't really even been a release made.
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> I'm guessing we'd go through similar phases and create alpha1, alpha2
> releases and jira versions etc once all of the blockers are resolved.
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> Really the blockers just involve removing the sections and gradebook
> standalone (sections is done just not committed, gradebook is more involved
> but possibly this week) and also testing the conversion scripts. I had a
> lot of errors in the mysql script and had to start off a fresh database.
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> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> Does anybody have a preference for what we should call the pre-Beta
>> testing cycle for Sakai 10 ? I think I’ve heard objections to calling it
>> Alpha, but I’m hoping to start drumming up testers and it would be nice to
>> have something simple to call it, just for administrative purposes. Plus
>> I’m naming the Google docs and the Confluence pages, etc. Need something to
>> tie it all together.
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>> I thought of “Prep phase”, but I’m not liking it. Ideas?
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>> Thanks,
>> Neal
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>> Neal Caidin
>> Sakai Community Coordinator
>> neal.caidin at apereo.org
>> Skype: nealkdin
>> Twitter: ncaidin
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