Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-13 Thread Myriam Schweingruber
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: El Dimecres, 13 de febrer de 2013, a les 01:21:07, Andreas K. Huettel va escriure: Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2013, 22:05:00 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: On Tuesday 12 February 2013 15:28:35 Anke Boersma wrote: This whole

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-13 Thread Myriam Schweingruber
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Myriam Schweingruber myr...@kde.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote: El Dimecres, 13 de febrer de 2013, a les 01:21:07, Andreas K. Huettel va escriure: Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2013, 22:05:00 schrieb Martin Gräßlin:

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-13 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimecres, 13 de febrer de 2013, a les 08:02:16, Martin Gräßlin va escriure: On Wednesday 13 February 2013 01:00:13 Albert Astals Cid wrote: El Dimarts, 12 de febrer de 2013, a les 22:05:00, Martin Gräßlin va escriure: On Tuesday 12 February 2013 15:28:35 Anke Boersma wrote: This

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Anke Boersma
Since the original email in this thread came from the Chakra-Project, and we asked if the Arch Linux devs would co sign and send, seems it is needed we explain/respond one more time. At Chakra-Project we do not feel there is any need to change the way the release is handled, 4-5 days in between

Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 12 February 2013 11:57:21 Anke Boersma wrote: As to point 2, having a much clearer set policy, that any distro can convey to their testers must surely result in less badly placed bug reports. Testers who have to read documentation just to be able to use a certain repo, are far more

Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Anke Boersma
But this is the exact point I'm trying to make. Educate early testers to report any issues they find within the distro. We have done that for 3 years, and is well known and accepted by our testers (this includes testing all beta and rc builds for Chakra). It is just a 3-4 day period, many early

Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Myriam Schweingruber
Hi Anke, On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Anke Boersma abveri...@chakra-project.org wrote: But this is the exact point I'm trying to make. Educate early testers to report any issues they find within the distro. We have done that for 3 years, and is well known and accepted by our testers

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Ralf Jung
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Now let's assume we would have the packages out in the wild for 4.11 prior to release. The version information reported by DrKonqui is 4.11.0 - no matter which tarball is currently running. At the same time there's still an RC out (4.10.98).

Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Ian Monroe
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org wrote: Would a solution like introducing dedicated versions help here: maybe. It would require each developer working with such issues to track the release team mailing list to get the notification of a respin, the new version

Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 12 February 2013 19:27:49 Ralf Jung wrote: * add git tags and bugzilla versions at the same time as tarballs are created gues who creates the bugzilla versions and no I don't think it would scale to burden that to the release team. -- Martin Gräßlin signature.asc Description: This

Re: Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 12 February 2013 10:43:37 Ian Monroe wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org wrote: Would a solution like introducing dedicated versions help here: maybe. It would require each developer working with such issues to track the release team mailing

Re: Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 12 February 2013 19:25:46 Myriam Schweingruber wrote: Hi Anke, On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Anke Boersma abveri...@chakra-project.org wrote: But this is the exact point I'm trying to make. Educate early testers to report any issues they find within the distro. We have

Re: Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Anke Boersma
To get a clear picture then, our early tar builds should be completely hidden (not possible on our server), even-though no regular user has access to them, and any bugs found in the early tars (not build related) should be kept quiet, until the tars are officially announced. It is better to have

Re: Re: Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 12 February 2013 14:37:22 Anke Boersma wrote: any bugs found in the early tars (not build related) should be kept quiet, until the tars are officially announced. It is better to have final tars that have bugs that were known for a few days, than reporting. What kind of bugs are

Re: Re: Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Anke Boersma
This whole thread was about stable tars, not RC or Beta. What was found and reported often, is regressions from say, 4.x.2 to 4.x.3. Reported not in bug reports, but more a discussion on IRC, see if anyone was aware, sometimes ml, again, just checking if it was a known/accepted regression. On

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 12 February 2013 15:28:35 Anke Boersma wrote: This whole thread was about stable tars, not RC or Beta. Sorry at least to me that was not obvious. (thread started on 31. of January, doesn't mention minor releases, so I assumed it meant the upcoming release of 4.10) - all I wrote so far

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Anke Boersma
Same holds up for 4.x.0 too. Again, this is about the time between tagging the tars, and announced release. Regressions found between RC3 and the tagged tar for kde 4.10.0 in the last case. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2013

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 12 de febrer de 2013, a les 11:57:21, Anke Boersma va escriure: Since the original email in this thread came from the Chakra-Project, and we asked if the Arch Linux devs would co sign and send, seems it is needed we explain/respond one more time. At Chakra-Project we do not feel

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 12 de febrer de 2013, a les 18:32:32, Martin Gräßlin va escriure: On Tuesday 12 February 2013 11:57:21 Anke Boersma wrote: As to point 2, having a much clearer set policy, that any distro can convey to their testers must surely result in less badly placed bug reports.

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 12 de febrer de 2013, a les 19:27:49, Ralf Jung va escriure: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Now let's assume we would have the packages out in the wild for 4.11 prior to release. The version information reported by DrKonqui is 4.11.0 - no matter which

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 12 de febrer de 2013, a les 14:37:22, Anke Boersma va escriure: To get a clear picture then, our early tar builds should be completely hidden (not possible on our server), even-though no regular user has access to them, Can you please clarify if your tarballs are public or not? A

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 12 de febrer de 2013, a les 15:28:35, Anke Boersma va escriure: This whole thread was about stable tars, not RC or Beta. What was found and reported often, is regressions from say, 4.x.2 to 4.x.3. Right, regressions are bad, we all have them, but as said, raising the flag 2 days

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 12 de febrer de 2013, a les 22:05:00, Martin Gräßlin va escriure: On Tuesday 12 February 2013 15:28:35 Anke Boersma wrote: This whole thread was about stable tars, not RC or Beta. Sorry at least to me that was not obvious. (thread started on 31. of January, doesn't mention minor

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Anke Boersma
The problem is that this is most of the times this is too late. We usually have like 5 days between tag and release, meaning you start reporting bugs at day 2 or 3 which gives the developer a highly stressful 1-2 days to try to fix bug. If you want to help with testing, i think that

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2013, 22:05:00 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: On Tuesday 12 February 2013 15:28:35 Anke Boersma wrote: This whole thread was about stable tars, not RC or Beta. Sorry at least to me that was not obvious. (thread started on 31. of January, doesn't mention minor releases, so

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimecres, 13 de febrer de 2013, a les 01:21:07, Andreas K. Huettel va escriure: Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2013, 22:05:00 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: On Tuesday 12 February 2013 15:28:35 Anke Boersma wrote: This whole thread was about stable tars, not RC or Beta. Sorry at least to me that

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 12 de febrer de 2013, a les 19:15:50, Anke Boersma va escriure: The problem is that this is most of the times this is too late. We usually have like 5 days between tag and release, meaning you start reporting bugs at day 2 or 3 which gives the developer a highly stressful 1-2

Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-12 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 13 February 2013 01:00:13 Albert Astals Cid wrote: El Dimarts, 12 de febrer de 2013, a les 22:05:00, Martin Gräßlin va escriure: On Tuesday 12 February 2013 15:28:35 Anke Boersma wrote: This whole thread was about stable tars, not RC or Beta. Sorry at least to me that was

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-11 Thread Torgny Nyblom
On Monday 11 February 2013 00.24.51 Albert Astals Cid wrote: El Diumenge, 10 de febrer de 2013, a les 08:15:40, Martin Gräßlin va escriure: On Saturday 09 February 2013 23:08:50 Albert Astals Cid wrote: Of course another option is lifting the requirement for the pre-packages not being

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-10 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Diumenge, 10 de febrer de 2013, a les 08:15:40, Martin Gräßlin va escriure: On Saturday 09 February 2013 23:08:50 Albert Astals Cid wrote: Of course another option is lifting the requirement for the pre-packages not being publicly available, after all the packages will most likely be the

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-09 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am 05.02.2013 20:42, schrieb Albert Astals Cid: El Dilluns, 4 de febrer de 2013, a les 21:26:31, Andrea Scarpino va escriure: We'd like to know if we can put the packages in a repository not enabled, neither available, at install time. The instructions on how to enable this repo are in a

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-09 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dissabte, 9 de febrer de 2013, a les 19:19:24, Pierre Schmitz va escriure: Am 05.02.2013 20:42, schrieb Albert Astals Cid: El Dilluns, 4 de febrer de 2013, a les 21:26:31, Andrea Scarpino va escriure: We'd like to know if we can put the packages in a repository not enabled, neither

Re: Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-09 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Saturday 09 February 2013 23:08:50 Albert Astals Cid wrote: Of course another option is lifting the requirement for the pre-packages not being publicly available, after all the packages will most likely be the real thing, so if everyone agrees it is better lifting this requirement, we can

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-05 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 4 de febrer de 2013, a les 21:26:31, Andrea Scarpino va escriure: On Monday 04 February 2013 21:03:48 Albert Astals Cid wrote: Can you provide an easier way to find Dirk's mail, like a webarchive mail or at least an approximate date of the email and the subject? ATM I can't

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-04 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dijous, 31 de gener de 2013, a les 22:42:20, Andrea Scarpino va escriure: LS Since there is not a clear answer yet, and both the undersigned Distro's feel a better way of testing the tagged tars is needed during the 4-5 days before they are officially released, we'd like to make a

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-04 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Monday 04 February 2013 21:03:48 Albert Astals Cid wrote: Can you provide an easier way to find Dirk's mail, like a webarchive mail or at least an approximate date of the email and the subject? ATM I can't find it neither (the discussion about this issue forked from the original topic), but

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-04 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Saturday 02 February 2013 08:17:15 Rex Dieter wrote: Has anyone ever explicitly said making packages available to targetted testers was a *bad* idea? Yes, take a look to Martin's thread in date 3th June 2012. Also, I've been 'call back' time ago (about two years ago or less) from a KDE dev

Re: Better testing of tagged tars

2013-02-02 Thread Rex Dieter
On 01/31/2013 03:42 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: We, as Arch Linux and Chakra-Project developers would like to propose now to follow the recommendation set by Dirk Mueller in the last long ml thread regarding this issue, and have the build packages from the tagged tars available to our testers

Better testing of tagged tars

2013-01-31 Thread Andrea Scarpino
LS Since there is not a clear answer yet, and both the undersigned Distro's feel a better way of testing the tagged tars is needed during the 4-5 days before they are officially released, we'd like to make a proposal on behalf of the Linux distributions Arch Linux and the Chakra-Project.