On 01/13/2011 05:31 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
"So: QA 5.6 and 6.0 in parallel or prefer one release over the other. Imho, 5.6 impacts existing installs, should get higher pref. Thoughts ?"
Agree. A public announcement of a decision on this, when made, would help head off a lot of user questions.
From my perspective:
- 5.6 impacts existing installs
- 5.6 and updates contain security issues
- 5.x buildsys and process is fairly well tested and completely independent from 6.x; the main resources are not even hosted in the same country!
- the 5.6 testing process, for whatever automation we have at the moment, is completely independent from 6.x's stuff ; the patching process is also completely automated ( Except for a few packages that I need to do by hand and a handful others that pitch in with specific patches - but overall its fairly quickly done )
- Finally, all packages for 5.6 are in the buildqueue and first round of builds is complete ( the last package dropped out about 2 minutes back ).
The only place where there is an overlap is in the QA process. But my guess is that having been through 5 previous releases, the QA guys can address this fairly quickly.
however there are a few other implications that need to be considered before making a decision. Firstly, the mirror situation. If we were to drop 5.6 in a few days time - we would need to wait for mirror's to stabilise before we move to releasing 6.0. I am not sure what that time lag needs to be, but it should be possible to workout.
What I am going to propose is that lets let both the threads run through for the moment. Lets meet in #centos-devel@irc.freenode.net at 1600 hrs on Friday the 14th Jan 2011 and talk about this, get a plan together. That time should hopefully be late enough for the Americans to be awake, but early enough for the Germans to not be drunk yet :)
- KB