Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Brian Pepple]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 17:01 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:41:04AM -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 16:11 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:00:52AM -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > This is on FESCo's schedule to discuss after F7 was released.
> > > 
> > > Does that mean that releng needs to wait for fesco to first decide on
> > > that to develop a freezing strategy for F8 and beyond? Because having
> > > mass-rebuilds shortly before or as part of the freeze certainly offers
> > > two completely different scenarios to start from to discuss freezing
> > > at all.
> > 
> > To develop a freezing strategy for releases? No.  The plan is for FESCo
> > to discuss whether any changes to the build toolchain warrants a mass
> > rebuild.  My guess is this would be sometime around T1 time probably.
> 
> The freezing strategy is releng's job. So releng would have to wait
> until test1 to know whether there will be a mass-rebuild to really
> discuss freezing? Also when scheduling F8 one needs to be aware
> whether there will be any mass-rebuilds to make sure the freezing test
> release has enough time before GA 

And it's not possible for the rel-eng to plan for scenarios where we may
or may not have mass rebuilds beforehand? 

/B
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