Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-06 Thread Rakesh Pandit
On 6 March 2010 02:50, Adam Miller wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: We have various different definitions of the Alpha, it seems. The working definition that QA / rel-eng have always worked on when deciding whether to ship it is, broadly, 'can

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: We have various different definitions of the Alpha, it seems. The working definition that QA / rel-eng have always worked on when deciding whether to ship it is, broadly, 'can you install it, boot it, get a network connection, and install updates'. That's what the

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Richard Hughes
On 4 March 2010 19:59, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: I think we really need to be more conservative about what version of our default updating tool we include in our releases (and in fact pushing PackageKit 0.6 as a post-release enhancement update once the issues with it are

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread James Laska
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 21:06 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: I did explicitly explain to you and the other desktop SIGs at the start of the F13 cycle that, because we just hadn't had time to discuss all the thorny implications of the question, the desktop criteria would be

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
James Laska wrote: Quality isn't something you staff and hope they cover all your testing needs. Quality practices are expected of everyone at all stages of the process. In the QA team, we work to provide a framework and guidelines so people interested in making a difference have an

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 05:31 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: We have various different definitions of the Alpha, it seems. The working definition that QA / rel-eng have always worked on when deciding whether to ship it is, broadly, 'can you install it, boot it, get a

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 05:32 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:53 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: We should change or refine the Freeze Policy page then. Having different definitions of what is required for alpha to go out and what can go in after

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-05 Thread Adam Miller
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: We have various different definitions of the Alpha, it seems. The working definition that QA / rel-eng have always worked on when deciding whether to ship it is, broadly, 'can you install it,

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
James Laska wrote: Representatives from Fedora QA, Rel-Eng and Development met on IRC to review determine whether the Fedora 13 Alpha release criteria [1] have been met. The team agreed that the Alpha criteria have been met, and to proceed with releasing F-13-Alpha-RC4. Oh, because a KDE

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Richard Hughes
On 4 March 2010 13:17, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: But of course the GNOME spin works (for some definition of works, they also have a PackageKit issue which was declared not a blocker – For the record, it is a yum-langpacks issue. If you're running an up to date gnome-packagekit

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Richard Hughes wrote: On 4 March 2010 13:17, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: But of course the GNOME spin works (for some definition of works, they also have a PackageKit issue which was declared not a blocker – For the record, it is a yum-langpacks issue.

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: James Laska wrote: Representatives from Fedora QA, Rel-Eng and Development met on IRC to review determine whether the Fedora 13 Alpha release criteria [1] have been met. The team agreed that the Alpha criteria have been met, and to

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:47:28AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: On one hand we have people complaining about the quality of updates, on the other hand we're happily releasing crap we know is broken. It's an *alpha*. 'Crap we know is

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:22 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:47:28AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: On one hand we have people complaining about the quality of updates, on the other hand we're happily

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:53 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: I'm not particularly sold on the definition in the freeze policy, and honestly I suspect it's been honored much more in the breach than in the observance. I'd be very surprised if all planned features of a given release have ever

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:05:29PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:53 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: To give a practical example, if 'KDE X.Y with shiny new IM client' is listed as a feature for the Alpha, we'd say the freeze policy requires the new IM client

Re: Fedora 13 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting: 2010-03-04 @ 01:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: I did explicitly explain to you and the other desktop SIGs at the start of the F13 cycle that, because we just hadn't had time to discuss all the thorny implications of the question, the desktop criteria would be considered only with regards to the default desktop. Which