[Pulp-dev] Pulp 3 Release Process Questions

[Patrick Creech]

Thanks Robin!

On Thu, 2018-04-19 at 16:34 -0400, Robin Chan wrote:
> Dennis, Eric, & Patrick,
> 
> Thanks for this additional information around this motivation behind some of the differences between Pulp 2 and Pulp 3 release options. I'm glad to hear that Pulp 2 had some constraints that Pulp 3
> does not have and that Pulp 3 can now be published on PyPI. This is great and a good change.  A release process in Pulp 3 that allows for community contribution of a wide range of Linux
> distributions would be fantastic and I fully support that goal.

+1, The increase in accessibility of the pulp project with pulp3 to other user bases is a great thing.  

> When I see the term "derivative" packaging, I'm not clear on what is meant here. If it simply means that it is created after that, then I don't see is how the above goals or changes make RPM
> deliverables something we don't have any commitments around. 

This is what we (the build team) believe it to mean.  Whatever is published to PyPI becomes the source of reference here, and other packaging flows from these bits.  As long as proper quality control
measures are in place (before the publish to PyPI) that maintain the confidince in quality that pulp has earned during pulp 2, then the process of ensuring the availability of RPM packages from PyPI
bits becomes much simpler and straightforward and easier to automate.

> I suspect that Pulp 3.0 Core Beta consumers would be OK with taking just PyPI delivery of Pulp 3.0 core beta code even though we committed to RPM deliverables. 

Although there are other high priority items on our plate, we committed to having a software collection and beta rpm bits available on/near the beta date.  Unless things change with those other
priority items, I'm comfortable working to keep this commitment.

> I also think some additional discussion of testing by various tools and teams would be good to have in a collaborative, open way.

+1

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With all of the above, I think where we (the build team) need immediate help to move forward is to figure out where rpms need to be hosted, and figuring out the signing processes.  I don't think we
can use Pulp 2's gpg keys with Pulp 3 (well, technically we could, but it was always the intention to change the GPG key with X releases on pulp).  That way we can be ready to have 'something' hosted
close to beta day.  As far as a weekly release frequency for beta, I'm not sure we could keep up that pace with RPM packaging untill we iron out the process more.

Also, it appears that Pulp has adopted the use of Travis upstream for pulp 3, I'm assuming that's how the pushes to pypi will happen?

Thanks,
Patrick
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