On 21/08/17 16:57, Brian Stinson wrote:

Hi Folks,

We've had a few discussions around how to handle releasing CR (https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR) over the past few days.

When we last checked in, there was still a bit of work going on building and testing pre-release CR (the QA team has been hard at work), and the altarch builds were still in progress.

There are 2 ways the release might play out:

• If the altarch (aarch64, and ppc64{,le}) builds are finished, and we are otherwise ready: CBS and CI will be seeded from the mirrors just like usual, and CR will be available at roughly the same time as the rest of the mirror network

• If the altarch builds are not yet ready, the CentOS QA team may decide to release x86_64 ahead of the other arches. In that case, we will wait for ppc and aarch64 but still seed CI and CBS together as soon as the altarch builds are ready.

If there are any questions, feel free to comment here. As always we will post updates as we move forward.

Cheers!

-- Brian Stinson

I was dscussing with some people on IRC who got the false impression that what they were building and also testing in CI was tested against CR. I'm back from "offline mode" and had a quick check, but it seems that your proposal #2 was the one that was chosen : nothing pushed to CBS/CI so built/tested against 7.3 and not 7.3+CR

Just want to be sure that we communicate that as I saw some RDO folks mentioning Pike (next release) being released today and they hoped to follow closely the upstream release. I hope that then the 7.4.1708 release will not break their Pike builds and tests (released before 7.4.1708)