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

[Alexey Kazakov]

Just for clarification. We are fixing bugs in CR1 and we need them available in nightly builds for the PDK installer.


> On Jan 29, 2016, at 6:33 AM, Alexey Kazakov <alkazako at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> We need this for the PDK installer. It uses nightly builds.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 29, 2016, at 1:23 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm not following here. Why do we need cr bits on Wednesday ? Are we back again at having zero time between the beta and cr1?
>> 
>> I thought we pushed the dates to avoid exactly this. 
>> 
>> /max
>> http://about.me/maxandersen
>> 
>> 
>>> On 28 Jan 2016, at 22:23, Nick Boldt <nboldt at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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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>>>> 
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