[Freeipa-devel] FreeIPA 4.2 Alpha preparations

[Fraser Tweedale]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 07:55:10AM +0200, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 06/16/2015 05:29 PM, Fraser Tweedale wrote:
> >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.
> 
> What is the ETA? It would be nice to have the fix for Alpha, the package can
> be built in the freeipa-4.2 COPR repo, together with the 4.2 Alpha release.
> If the ETA is too far, we may need to release Alpha regardless as there are
> some Test Days planned next week and upgrade is not required for such test
> days.
> 
Based on people educating me about how LDAP replication works:
tomorrow, hopefully.  In any case, I'm glad to know that the test
days will not be affected by upgrade issues.

> >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).
> 
> 
> Right. This must be fixed before GA, but Alpha can live without it IMO.

I investigated this regression today - details are in another
thread, but it appears to be introduced by a different change and I
have requested comment from those more familiar with that change.

Thanks,
Fraser