[katello-devel] Promotion topics for consideration

[Bryan Kearney]

On 08/03/2011 10:03 AM, Todd Sanders wrote:
> On 08/02/2011 02:17 PM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A few questions around promotions:
>>
>> 1. Currently if you have a new product, you can only promote the
>> product and all its contents initially. Meaning that normally, I would
>> sync a new product, and in order to get it to the next environment I
>> would promote it across my entire path, promoting all of the content
>> of the product initially. Is this correct?
>
> So I think this is the correct behavior; however we do need to ensure we
> have a solution for customers that want to seed their environments with
> a specific point release (i.e RHEL 6.1), and then manage only additional
> RHSAs. I'll start looking into this scenario.
>
> I also think that filters (whitelist & blacklist) is key here. We need
> to get this functionality in place as well.
>
>>
>> 2. Currently in the UI we allow you to select content for promotion on
>> products that have not been promoted. This was mainly due to to the
>> lack of stability in that area.
>
> Yes, we should not allow you to select specific content for promotion
> for a product that is not in the environment you are promoting to. Until
> you have seeded the environment with the product, you are limited.
>
>> I believe this was interpreted differently because the current backend
>> code will promote the full product X if you select to promote a
>> package in X and it doesn't exist in the next environment.
>
> Yes. Sounds like this is just another area that needs refactoring to be
> consistent across the board.
>
> BK - can you add backlog stories to correct this behavior?
>
>>
>> You shouldn't be able to even select a package in product X if X is
>> not in the next environment, correct?
>
> Absolutely correct.
>
> -Todd

I will add this, but I am concerned with the apporach of "next env" 
logic. That means when we get to paths with more that one next, we will 
have to clone change sets instead of reusing them.

-- bk