Hi Robert, I think this is a nice simplification of our process. Let's proceed with this once qastaging is live and edge no more.
Cheers -- Francis J. Lacoste [email protected] On September 27, 2010, Robert Collins wrote: > Hi, we have currently a production-stable branch which is private; it > is maintained with CP's and merges during a cycle and discarded every > time we bring db-stable into play. > > I'd like to suggest that we make a few changes here as RFWTAD progresses. > > Firstly, I think that security patches which have never been public > are really very very rare: we can make the process for dealing with > them a little more complex, and make the common case much simpler, for > an overall net win. > > Once we have qastaging live, we're going to be switching deployments > to edge that haven't been QA'd, off. QA will be moving to qastaging. > > At that point, if we want to, we can simply stop using > production-devel and production-stable. > > Here's how it would work. > > We deploy stable rather than production-stable to servers. This would > mean no more CP's - only cowboys and deploys. > We shouldn't need CP's because we have the QA process Maris mailed out > for moving things on stable into production. > > And at that point, if we have a security issue we have to deploy asap; > we'd do the following: > - cowboy it out there [and keep it as a cowboy on future deploys] > - land a regular branch fixing it for good > - remove the cowboy when the regular branch has been incorporated > into the main deployed codebase. > > This would chop 4 hours off the time that things take to deploy, > remove one buildbot queue and generally make the whole code->live > story a bit simpler, at the cost of making the security-fix story more > complex. Personally, I think that that is a net win. > > Seeking-your-thoughts, > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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