+1 for final versions

Thanks,
Caty

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1, definitely.
>
> Thanks,
> Eduard
>
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]
> >
> wrote:
>
> > +1
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 5:11 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi devs,
> > >
> > > As you know our goal is to use myxwiki.org as a real life test
> platform
> > to validate releases of XWiki.
> > >
> > > Current Situation
> > > ==================
> > >
> > > However this is currently not working very well for 2 reasons:
> > >
> > > 1) We’re always lagging behind on the version installed on myxwiki.org
> .
> > Right now it’s 7.1.2 and our last released version is 7.3M2. Thus if we
> > notice a problem on myxwiki.org, it’ll be fixed only in much later
> > versions and myxwiki.org is not playing its role of helping validate
> > releases before we release final versions.
> > >
> > > 2) We don’t really monitor the performance of myxwiki.org.
> > >
> > > 3) We don’t really analyse issues that can happen on it because we
> don’t
> > check the logs.
> > >
> > > Thus I think we need to find a better process for benefitting from
> > myxwiki.org.
> > >
> > > Question
> > > =========
> > >
> > > Are we still interested in benefitting from myxwiki.org for testing
> our
> > releases?
> > >
> > > If not, then stop reading at this point :)
> > > If we are, then I’m making some proposals below.
> > >
> > > Proposal
> > > =========
> > >
> > > For 1):
> > >
> > > I’d like to propose to add a step in our ReleasePlan template as the
> > last step:
> > > - Check the myxwiki.org upgrade roster and ping the next person to
> > update myxwiki.org
> > >
> > > So the idea would be to not make the RM do the upgrade since he/she
> > already has a lot to do to release XWiki but to make him/her responsible
> > for pinging someone to do it. Then we would take turn to upgrade it (in a
> > similar fashion as we do for releasing XWiki).
> > >
> > > Note that I believe this would also make us work on making it simpler
> to
> > perform XWiki upgrades and this would benefit our users. We would eat our
> > own dog food basically :)
> > >
> > > For 2):
> > >
> > > Here are ideas of what we could monitor and receive alerts when they go
> > beyond a given threshold:
> > > - the average response times users get on it,
> > > - when a specific requests takes more than N seconds (this would also
> > allow us to find wiki pages written by our users and which take too much
> > CPU thus making the farm slower than it should be),
> > > - its uptime
> > > - the memory used
> > >
> > > For 3):
> > >
> > > I think we could set up some elastic search/kibana solution as we had
> > set up at some point (this makes it nice to browse and search for logs)
> and
> > then send automatic mails to the devs list or IRC when exception happen.
> > This would have the nice benefit of making us work on fixing the code and
> > not generating exceptions when we have only warnings that don’t impact
> the
> > stability of the platform.
> > >
> > > WDYT?
> > >
> > > If we agree, then we’ll need to discuss how to setup 2 and 3.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > -Vincent
> > >
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> >
> >
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