Spin Updates Policy Draft

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:22:42 -0400
Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 17:31 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:32:01 -0400 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:19 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > >  Doesn't this also imply rel-eng taking on building said updates?  Since
> > > > >  the hosted spins were also being built by rel-eng AFAIK at this point.
> > > > 
> > > > If the updates are Release Update Spins, yes they are to be built like
> > > > Release Spins because they are going to be hosted.  If they are to be
> > > > contributed update spins, then they don't require hosting from Fedora
> > > > and they can be built and hosted like any contributed spin in the
> > > > Kickstart Pool.  
> > > 
> > > So that means we need buy-in from rel-eng to do more building of images.
> > > I know that I personally don't have any spare cycles for doing so
> > 
> > Building images isn't all that time consuming.  I was doing it for a
> > while before we started this conversation and I'll do it again if needs
> > be.  Frankly, it's one of the few ways I feel I can actually
> > contribute.  Yay for more than 1 person in rel-eng ;)
> 
> Building them doesn't take long.  Verifying is where the time is spent.
> Well, and getting things to fit on a CD.[1]

1) Getting things to fit on the CD (if that's the target size) should
be done by the spin owner, not rel-eng.  If it doesn't fit in the
target size, rel-eng punts back to the owner.  That's in Jeff's
proposal.

2) You said building originally.  Not building and verifying :)

That being said, for "Featured/Hosted Spins" I thought we were doing to
do the Beta period, which should still apply for updated spins.  Much
testing should ensure during that timeframe.

josh