[Freeipa-devel] FreeIPA 4.2.1 checklist

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 09:19:16AM +0200, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 09/04/2015 09:12 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 08:42:47AM +0200, Martin Kosek wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> It is now only couple days before Fedora 23 Beta freeze [1] and as we
> >> discussed, we would like to release FreeIPA 4.2.1, which already contains 148
> >> patches on top of FreeIPA 4.2.0, mostly stabilization of the new 4.2 features
> >> or upgrade fixes.
> >>
> >> IIRC, we miss 2 dependencies:
> >>
> >> 1) pki-ca 10.2.6
> >>
> >> This is still waiting in Updates Testing [2]. We need 3 positive karma (only if
> >> it works of course) to make it move to stable updates repo and so that we do
> >> not have broken deps.
> >>
> >> 2) sssd 1.13.1
> >>
> >> This upstream release does not officially exist, AFAIK, only in a COPR repo. I
> >> see 2 options here:
> >> - SSSD project releases 1.13.1 to Fedora 23 Beta too and we can keep the Requires
> >> - SSSD 1.13.0 in Fedora 23 kindly adds the missing patch that caused us to bump
> >> the requires and we set the requires in Fedora 23 to 1.13.0.
> > 
> > I would prefer to release 1.13.1, there's too many patches to backport.
> 
> Well, an case of FreeIPA and it's requires, we should only need 5 of them:
> https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/2558#comment:12

But the number of fixes is quite high, there's already close to 50
tickets fixed and if we rebase, we better to it before Beta.

> 
> This is the ticket that bumped the FreeIPA SSSD Requires:
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4249
> 
> > The only question is whether we include some patches that I just
> > yesterday finished testing. I'll send them to the list so that we can
> > see if they are digestable in the couple of days, otherwise we include
> > them in .2 and patch downstream later.
> > 
> >>
> >> Jakub, any preference?
> >>
> >> Besides the package requiremenst, What patches do you want to include to do the
> >> release in the end of today or the beginning of the next week?
> > 
> > The schedule says the Beta freeze is on Wednesday, so we need to release
> > on Tuesday, correct?
> 
> Correct, but on Wednesday, the update should be in stable already, according to:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Milestone_freezes
> 
> So it would be safer to release upstream on Monday, get the positive karma and
> request the transition to stable so that the transition is completed before
> Wednesday.

OK.

> 
> >> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule
> >> [2] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-13905
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com>
> >> Supervisor, Software Engineering - Identity Management Team
> >> Red Hat Inc.
> 
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