[RFC] mock release plans

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 03:09:19PM -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
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> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 June 2007 15:35:43 Michael E Brown wrote:
> >> Proposal #3: mock 0.7 release
> >>     We are overdue for a release. To that end, I will tag the current
> >> master branch as 0.7 for release. I will push mock 0.7 to rawhide. After
> >> a period of time in rawhide (one week?), I will create a release for
> >> Fedora 7 to push into updates-testing/. Announcements will be sent to
> >> the lists for each of these releases.
> >>
> > 
> > I'd rather not wait for a rawhide timeout to get it into updates-testing for 
> > Fedora 7/6.  I've done some extensive testing and I'm satisfied with it 
> > myself, but want to get it into updates-testing asap for Fedora 7.  Fedora 6 
> > doesn't have a -testing for Extras packages so that's a bit more risky, I'd 
> > be OK with delaying that one a bit.  So instead I'd propose a release to 
> > rawhide and updates-testing ASAP, give it a short time or enough good 
> > feedback before releasing to Extras 6 and stable updates 7.
> > 
> 
> I agree that we need to get this one to updates-testing as soon as
> possible (entirely because we've gone too long without pushing bugfixes).

ack. Will tag release today and push to rawhide/F7. I havent done a
bhodi build yet, so wish me luck. :P

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> I think our normal mode should be to push to rawhide, wait a bit for the
> screaming to die down (maybe fix a few bugs), then push to
> updates-testing. Is that the intended flow of events?

Yes, that feels right to me.

> >> We will implement the above after signoff by Clark Williams and Jesse
> >> Keating.
> > 
> > I sign off on the policy, and apologize for the duplicate -jesse branches.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I sign off as well.

Will send more notes as I work through the release.
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Michael