[Freeipa-devel] Ready to release?

[Jan Cholasta]

Hi,

On 4.7.2014 17:34, Petr Spacek wrote:
> On 4.7.2014 17:20, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>> On 07/04/2014 04:57 PM, Martin Kosek wrote:
>>> Hello developers!
>>>
>>> I would like to thank everyone for the hard work during the last weeks,
>>> when finishing the FreeIPA 4.0 release, I saw many last stabilization
>>> fixes in DNS, OTP, ACIs, upgrade and Web UI areas.
>>>
>>> The last major work that is still not pushed is the CA management tool.
>>> Unfortunately, the final development and review did not go so well and
>>> we still do not have final patches.
>>>
>>> Given that this is a major piece of work (>50 patches) and given that
>>> the reviewer is on a leave, I am considering moving the feature to next
>>> release - FreeIPA 4.1 which is short and would still make it to Fedora
>>> 21. I would not like to stall 4.0 any more, I would like to offer all
>>> the work we have done for wider testing as soon as possible.
>>>
>>> Thoughts? Any other last patches you would like to add to add to 4.0 GA?
>>> There is still little time, but remember, git tag hammer is ready to
>>> fire.
>>
>> I'm testing these two:
>> - mbasti-0098-100, DNS tests
>> - mkosek-478, Spec bump
>>
>> Then there's pvoborni-695 with only a functional ACK
>>
>> The CA management is still up for discussion, but it's more and more
>> likely
>
> We have deferred 'full' DNSSEC support already so it is not unprecedented.
>
> I have one proposal (valid only if we decide to defer CA management):
>
> Maybe we could release 4.1 in few weeks when DNSSEC and CA management
> are done & properly reviewed.
>
> That would allow us to follow 'release early, release often' lore. In my
> opinion, smaller release = safer.
>
> Of course, it would mean shifting current version numbers from 4.x to
> 4.(x+1), sorry Martin! :-)
>

I'm fine with deferring CA management. I could fix the remaining issues 
in time, but Rob, who is reviewing the patches, is on PTO and IMO the 
code could use some more testing before releasing it into the wild.

Honza

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Jan Cholasta