[sakai2-tcc] Thoughts on 2.9.1 schedule

[Neal Caidin]

Specifically where is it overly padded? How much time can be saved?

Also, local issues can impact resources at any time, so I'm not sure a little padding is such a bad (or unrealistic) thing. 

-- Neal


On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu> wrote:

> This bit in the schedule appears overly padded--it should not take an entire week to perform the release, check the artifacts and declare victory.  
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>> Monday - Feb 4 - Final build commences - GA
>> Wednesday - Feb 6 - final build done for GA (general availability)
>> Thurs/Fri - Final validation testing against GA, and documentation
>> Friday, Feb 8 - announce official release
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> In theory, a *.x branch should be releasable at any time.   
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> Anth
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> On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:28 PM, Neal Caidin wrote:
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>> Hi TCC,
>> 
>> Before I publish to the broader community. I'm thinking that 2.9.1 will be out between mid-February and late-February. It of course is dependent on Matt J.'s schedule and local workload, amount of QA testing we get, availability of QA coordination (normally this has been me), and if any blocker issues come up necessitating an RC02. I think we have a 50/50 chance of only needing an RC01 since 2.9.x has had some pretty good testing against it. We also have a few security issues which I'm hoping we can get tested and merged, but if we don't, we might want to proceed anyway and target them for 2.9.2 . 
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>> Details
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>> Since Monday is a holiday, the soonest we can get a 2.9.1-RC01 out is next Thursday morning (or the night before), Jan 24. The build could start on Tuesday and usually takes two days to complete. 
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>> Scenario 1 - optimistic scenario - assuming an RC01 only and sufficient QA coordination and activity
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>> Earliest start :
>> Tuesday - Jan 22 - RC01 build starts
>> Thursday - Jan 24 - QA testing begins
>> Friday - Feb1 - QA testing complete
>> Monday - Feb 4 - Final build commences - GA
>> Wednesday - Feb 6 - final build done for GA (general availability)
>> Thurs/Fri - Final validation testing against GA, and documentation
>> Friday, Feb 8 - announce official release
>> 
>> If we don't have sufficient QA coordination and testing, you could add another week on. If we need an RC02 then add another 2 weeks (or at least week and a half) so we can get things fixed, a new build, and QA testing. That would put us at March 1 (but we can tweak that to Feb 28).
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>> Sound reasonable?  
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>> I would announce to community that current target for 2.9.1 looks like mid to late February.
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>> Cheers,
>> 
>> 
>> Neal Caidin
>> 
>> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
>> nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
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