Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-12-21 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, slowly … :) As a first step I copied your draft of steps for Hydra release management to the wiki: https://nixos.org/wiki/Hydra_release_management The next step, from my perspective, would be to try to perform “a release” and probably

Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-12-14 Thread Domen Kožar
Thanks Christian and Aszlig, I'll talk to you on IRC in a couple of days. On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Joachim Schiele wrote: > nice to hear that you want to do this. > > i've added a documentation about the setup process in the wiki, it can > be found here: > >

Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-12-11 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, ok. I can start with turning this into a checklist in the wiki. After that I’d like walk through those things with someone. Things can take a while currently, as I’m on parental leave. :) Christian > On 08 Dec 2015, at 13:07, Domen Kožar wrote: > > Hey Christian, > >

Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-12-11 Thread Joachim Schiele
nice to hear that you want to do this. i've added a documentation about the setup process in the wiki, it can be found here: https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_hydra_as_nixos_module On 11.12.2015 12:05, Christian Theune wrote: > Hi, > > ok. I can start with turning this into a checklist in the

Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-12-11 Thread aszlig
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:02:04AM +0100, Domen Kožar wrote: > Is anyone willing to step up and help the community? I'm running several Hydra instances both public and private but I'm not sure whether I'd bu qualified for this as well, because I tend to hate Perl with a passion :-D But if nobody

Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-12-08 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, I *might* be able to. But I’m not sure I’m qualified enough. We’re using it at the company and rely on it, so this would be a good place to contribute back. Anyone willing to detail what is expected regarding QA in a bit more detail? Cheers, Christian > On 08 Dec 2015, at 12:06, Domen

Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-12-08 Thread Domen Kožar
So no one is willing to step up? This would benefit the whole community and it's not a lot of work, mostly small housekeeping. On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Matthias Beyer wrote: > On 18-11-2015 12:23:30, Peter Simons wrote: > > Domen Kožar writes: > > > > > We need

Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-12-08 Thread Domen Kožar
Hey Christian, thanks. I had following in mind. Before the release: - check changelog is really up to date - mark any backwards incompatible changes - make sure all hydra tests pass - make sure the upgrade procedure works from previous release - test that setting up hydra from scratch works by

Re: [Nix-dev] [call for] Release manager for Hydra

2015-11-18 Thread Matthias Beyer
On 18-11-2015 12:23:30, Peter Simons wrote: > Domen Kožar writes: > > > We need someone to volunteer to be a release manager. They would be > > doing QA that the release works and make sure changelog, docs, etc > > are updated. > > Also, we need a Hydra module for NixOS so that NixOS users