Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:50:22PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>...
> The top three things I've spent release management time on that I shouldn't
> have had to are, in no discernable order:
> 
> 1) processing new RC bug reports to set sarge/sid tags appropriately, so
> that the RC bug list for sarge bears some resemblance to reality
> 
> 2) prodding maintainers to get all packages associated with library soname
> transitions synchronized so that they can progress into testing together
> (seems to require an average of 2-3 iterations, and 3-4 weeks)
> 
> 3) chasing down, or just waiting on (which means, taking time to poll the
> package's status to find out why a bug tagged 'testing' is still open),
> missing builds or fixes for build failures on individual architectures that
> are blocking RC bugfixes from reaching testing
> 
> Taken together, these probably account for more of my release management
> time than anything else, including actual work on release-critical bugs.
>...

Is it correct that none of these three points that account for most of 
your release management time would exist in a release process without 
testing?

> Steve Langasek

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Adrian

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