[libvirt] Release of libvirt 0.8.6

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 02:47:22AM +1100, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 02/12/2010, at 2:26 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> > Il giorno mar, 30/11/2010 alle 21.09 +0100, Daniel Veillard ha scritto:
> >> 
> >>  As indicated 10 days ago, today was time for a release, I didn't
> >> had much time so I simply generated a release from libvirt git
> >> without much testing. Hopefully this will be okay ! 
> > 
> > Doesn't seem to be the case :/
> 
> Ouch, that's two releases in a row with problems showing
> up straight away after release.
> 
> Looks like it might be time to put some kind of regression
> testing in place, as a go/no-go release criteria.
> 
> Our adhoc approach isn't working well enough any more.

If we had followed our existing rules more strictly it
would be have been fine. The stuff that caused the breakage
was a new feature, so it should not have been merged at
that late stage. All new features should have been merged
a week before, with only bug fixes following.

Daniel