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

[Nick Boldt]

Yes, but if we need CR1 bits available on Wed, we need to build them first.
:D

So, we're building them now.

Regarding the (c) issue, I've backed up all the snapshots build folders
from 4.3.1.Beta2a so IFF we need a respin-b, we can use them as input.



On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Leonard Dimaggio <ldimaggi at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Can we just finish Beta2 first? Qe should complete its testing on January
> 29 - and then we should ship on Feb 2.
>
> -- Len
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Alexey Kazakov <alkazako at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> >
>>
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