[Freeipa-devel] FreeIPA 4.2.1 checklist

[Martin Kosek]

On 09/04/2015 09:23 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> 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.

I fully agree with SSSD release before Beta. I was now mostly only discussing
the unfulfilled FreeIPA requires that has different requirements

> 
>>
>> 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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