[sakai2-tcc] [maint] Maintenance Branches: Enhancement vs Bug Merges
Beth Kirschner
bkirschn at umich.edu
Mon Jan 3 07:09:03 PST 2011
Happy New Year! The conversation on this thread died down weeks ago without a formal vote. The proposal is documented at:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/Maintenance+Branch+Merge+Policy+%28tentative%29
I'd like to call for a vote...
Thoughts?
- Beth
On Dec 8, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Noah Botimer wrote:
> To front-load my support, +1. If you can't tell me how to test it, I'm not convinced it's modest or fully understood -- thereby violating my concept of our promise of what maintenance releases mean.
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> So, for more...
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> I don't think that it's too much to ask to have these exceptional cases (5-10 a year?) documented in a standard form, including a few words of how to verify them. Our JIRA tickets are just too numerous and inconsistent to use as a real feature list.
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> The goal isn't to be a barrier; it's to spend about 10-20 minutes up front to explain out-of-band features and save the puzzlement and frustration of mysterious changes. These might not be right for the job, but perhaps these templates could be inspiration for a lightweight tool:
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> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/OSP/OSP+Feature+Template
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/OSP/OSP-SPEC+-+Specification+Template
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> A few completed examples (for admittedly more involved features than we might expect in maintenance):
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> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/OSP/Evaluator+Selection+Redesign
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/OSP/Duplicating+portfolios
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/OSP/Indiana+University+Matrices+Enhancements
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/OSP/Collaborative+Portfolio+Contributions
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> Thanks,
> -Noah
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> On Dec 8, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Beth Kirschner wrote:
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>> I believe the intent is that the institution doing the merge is responsible for testing. Perhaps we could require a Test Plan be documented and followed in the JIRA?
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>> - Beth
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>> On Dec 8, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Seth Theriault wrote:
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>>> Beth Kirschner wrote:
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>>>> - The change must be QA tested with the maintenance branch
>>>> before the merge
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>>> I'd like to hear whether QA and RelMgmt thinks they have the
>>> capacity to support this condition given that we are currently
>>> maintaining and/or testing up to a half-dozen "releases" at a
>>> time (currently 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, plus their respective kernels)
>>> plus the indies.
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>>> Seth
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