[jbosstools-dev] Proposed new approach to devstudio milestones when blockers/criticals are found: ship with Known Issues

[Jean-Francois Maury]

I fully agree with this proposal

Jeff

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:48 PM Nick Boldt <nboldt at redhat.com> wrote:

> A couple days ago, the Fuse Tooling team encountered what was at first
> thought as a blocker, but later downgraded [0].
>
> This brought up the issue of what to do when problems are found late in
> the QE test cycle (3hrs before the usual signoff).
>
> There are of course 3 options when this happens:
>
> a) block the release and *respin*, then wait 4-6 hrs for new bits, and
> some number of hours for QE to review & approve the changed build. Release
> ends up being delayed by a day or two
>
> b) block the release and *DO NOT SHIP*
>
> c) release *AS IS* with note about Known Issues on the project's New &
> Noteworthy [1] page and on the blog [2].
>
> [0] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FUSETOOLS-2799
> [1]
> http://tools.jboss.org/documentation/whatsnew/jbosstools/4.9.0.AM3.html#fusetools
> [2] http://tools.jboss.org/blog/4.9.0.am3.html#fuse-tooling
>
> Along with the new approach to doing fewer milestone releases [3], I'd
> like to propose that we:
>
> * stop doing respins UNLESS it's a GA candidate build.
>
> [3]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zmT5OuFJWyYrbg1rr6tJqur6ng4rrglUy2tdJbIuCDg/edit#heading=h.o6074tuk59c9
>
> So, for an AMx milestone build, we should mostly do option c (ship w/ a
> note), unless the milestone is REALLY unusable, in which case option b
> would apply.
>
> How do you feel about this approach?
>
> Nick
>
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