I know. I've been busy working on my automation. Steps to reproduce:
Spin up an xlarge Ubuntu AMI. Use most recent supported Ubuntu in quick launch wizard. (ami-640a0610) Try "make distsign" That's it. On 21 February 2013 17:59, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2013, at 18:41 , Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The hours and days I am spending on this release are trying to make up > for > > a non-deterministic test suite that can take hours and hours to babysit, > to > > the point where I am having to automate my way around it. > > I still haven’t seen any logs that I could use to help debug this. > > > > > The NEWS and CHANGES stuff should take 5-10 minutes tops. But if it is > > neglected, then the problem compounds, because now I have to look through > > the timelines and organise things so we are consistent. > > > > > > On 21 February 2013 17:32, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> On Feb 21, 2013, at 18:29 , Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Your response rests on a fallacy, in any case. > >>> > >>> Maintaining a list of release versions is going to be a PITA no matter > >> what > >>> we do. Especially when we have four or five divergent timelines. Moving > >>> these to the docs only consolidates the maintenance into one file. This > >>> will still require care and attention, and I believe it is appropriate > of > >>> me to remind people of that. The current state of affairs is a complete > >>> mess. > >> > >> All I know is we spend hours and days on this each release and I don’t > >> think this needs to be the case. > >> > >> Best > >> Jan > >> -- > >> > >> > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> On 21 February 2013 17:19, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> On Feb 21, 2013, at 18:16 , Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> If you're doing a release, please ensure proper NEWS and CHANGES > >> hygiene > >>>>> The recent releases went out with a entries in these files for > versions > >>>> we > >>>>> have not yet released. And some are missing entries for previous > >> versions > >>>>> we have released. I have added a few additional instructions to the > >> wiki, > >>>>> so hopefully these will be caught next time. > >>>> > >>>> Alternatively, let’s finally kill this superfluous, error-prone, > >>>> time-wasting > >>>> distraction from actual work and ensure the important information > >> contained > >>>> in it are covered in the docs. > >>>> > >>>> Cheers > >>>> Jan > >>>> -- > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> NS > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > NS > > -- NS
