Hey Chip, Perfectly alright with me.
Packaging is now more or less stable on the centos rpm side, so I can continue work on master and supply patches for 4.1 Cheers, Hugo > -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:56 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [ACS41] 4.1 branch moving to "limited updates only" after today > > Everyone should know this by now, but our schedule has us shifting to a > model where we limit the commits going into the 4.1 branch to a very few. > > Now we have some serious bugs still outstanding, which is challenging to say > the least. That being said, I'd suggest that we don't change the plan. > Stabilizing the 4.1 branch should be our focus, and that means that we have > to be very selective about what commits go into it moving forward. > > I'll ask that, as of the end of the day today, anyone with a commit that they > want cherry-picked into 4.1 (or a patch, if conflicts are expected) please > send > an email to the list with the following tags: > > [ACS41][Patch Request] - Followed by a reasonable description (or the bug > ID). > > I'll be watching the list and applying them as soon as I can. > > However - I'd suggest a couple of things: > > First, you need to *test* the fix. I'd actually ask that we take this a bit > further > than unit testing the fix. If there's a bug reporter, give them the patch and > have them build from 4.1 with the patch applied... > before asking to move it into the branch officially. This does effect the > process that the Citrix QA team is used to following, but I think it's the > best > option for us as a community. > > Second, I need help ensuring that the commit to cherry-pick applies cleanly > to the 4.1 branch. If you do the first thing, this should be easy... but > I'll > highlight this anyway. If it's going to have conflicts, then you should be > providing a patch that already deals with the conflicts. Patches like this > should be in the email itself, or in reviewboard. > > So this is what I'd *like* to see - starting tomorrow. > > Objections? Comments? Concerns? > > -chip
