[Freeipa-devel] FreeIPA 4.2 Alpha preparations

[Martin Kosek]

On 06/17/2015 12:31 PM, Fraser Tweedale wrote:
> 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.

Well, I will need some release in COPR for the test day. If clean install
works, it is good for me. So if you do not have Dogtag release with upgrade
issues fixed, I would just release Alpha as is, with this limitation.

I do not expect people upgrading to Alpha from production releases before 4.2
anyway.

> 
>>> 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
>