Hey Noah, sorry for being snipey. On Feb 21, 2013, at 19:07 , Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Would be awesome if someone could send failure logs here. Cheers Jan -- > > > 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
