[Freeipa-devel] FreeIPA 4.2 Alpha preparations

[Fraser Tweedale]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 05:10:00PM +0200, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 06/12/2015 11:34 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > As discussed in the last 2 weeks, we are getting close to the 4.2 finish line
> > and releasing FreeIPA 4.2 Alpha 1. We already have most of the major RFEs
> > complete, some still miss some partial functionality, but most are testable and
> > in Alpha state already.
> > 
> > We need to now find out what is blocking us from releasing the Alpha. I know
> > only about 2 issues:
> > 
> > - ipa-replica-manage del does not work well with the Topology plugin yet - Petr
> > Vobornik and Ludwig are working on it
> > - ipa-replica-prepare had some issues after upgrade from 4.1.x to 4.2.0 due to
> > inaccesible certificate profiles - Jan, Martin2, Fraser was investigating
> > 
> > Is that correct? Feature owners, please let me know if any of the major feature
> > regressed and is not working properly, maybe by other patch sets being merged.
> > 
> > When the blockers are resolved or documented, we should release the beast. Any
> > volunteer for the release process?
> > 
> > Finally, I put together a release note draft for the Alpha, please help me
> > completing and updating it:
> > 
> > http://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/4.2.0.alpha1
> > 
> > Thanks everyone!
> > 
> 
> I saw many fixes in Topology, that's good. I heard that pki-core 10.2.4 broke
> us, but I could not reproduce it today with fully updated F22 machine and I was
> able to install FreeIPA 4.2.git
> 
> If this is the case, can we just release the Alpha?

There are still some big brokens for upgrades.  The fixes for pki
are merged but there is no release yet.  I am only aware of one
reported issue for new installations: ipa-replica-prepare failing
when run on a replica (I haven't gotten to investigating this one
yet).