[jbosstools-dev] FYI: now building 4.3.1.CR1 // 4.3.1.Beta2x effectively frozen

[Alexey Kazakov]

There was some misunderstanding during our long discussion in HipChat.
But long story short.
Beta2 is our priority right now. If building a new CR1 built (from 4.3.x 
branch) may cause additional risks for Beta2 release then let's DO NOT 
do any CR1 build until we release Beta2.
For example the c) from the list below is exactly such a risk we want to 
avoid.

Thanks.

On 01/28/2016 01:33 PM, Nick Boldt wrote:
> Alexey has requested that the current pile of 4.3.mars/9.0.mars jobs
> [1] be reconfigured to build from the 4.3.x branch. Currently, they
> are set to build from the 4.3.1.Beta2x branch, in case we need a
> respin.
>
> [1] http://jenkins.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com/hudson/view/DevStudio/view/DevStudio_9.0.mars/
>
> This means that starting from this change, the 4.3.1.Beta2x branch is
> effectively frozen, since we won't be building any CI builds from
> there (unless we switch back).
>
> This also means that IFF we need a Beta2b respin (hopefully unlikely
> since there's really no time in the schedule for it), it will come
> with a bigger-than-normal cost:
>
> a) I will have to delete all the CR1 CI builds so they don't pollute
> the Beta2 aggregation with the wrong BUILD_ALIAS qualifiers
> b) I will have to switch the jobs back to use the 4.3.1.Beta2x branch
> c) I will have to build THE WHOLE STACK, not just the jobs which
> caused the respin (ie., for respin-a we only rebuilt Base and
> Openshift, then the JBT and JBDS aggregates & discovery sites). This
> will create what looks like a much larger diff for QE since the
> qualifiers will be incremented even though bitwise the contents are
> the same.
>