3 development process improvements

[Jesse Keating]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:42:10 -0500
Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:

> Not specifically the rc->final related, but the compose failed
> far too often during F8.  It felt like a majority of the time the
> images/ dir never got populated.
> 
> My install method of choice is PXE/kickstart, and I did a *lot* less
> test installs during F8 than I did in earlier releases due to this.
> 
> The thing that really bites is that if the compose failed, that it
> was often left that way until the following day (where it may fail
> again). Perhaps the compose needs to be split up into multiple parts
> somehow so that the latter bits can be re-run by hand without
> having to wait for a full compose?

Unfortunately the compose part had nothing to do with the stability of
the tree itself.  It's all in the fragility of the infrastructure around
making rawhide show up, and that's something we're continually working
on.

Given that we have extremely easy to use tools out there to compose
trees, we really aren't tied to waiting for rawhide to show up.  So
long as it's a repo of packages we can use tools like pungi and
livecd-creator to do composes on our own for testing.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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