On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Jan Kurik jkurik@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 01:39:33PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
Next week is the crunch week before F26 final, but it's also holidays in two countries with a lot of key Fedora contributors. In the US, Tuesday July 4th is Independence Day (and many people may take a long weekend for family stuff including Monday). In the Czech Republic, both July 5th and July 6th are public holidays (Saints Cyril and Methodius' Day, and Jan Hus Day).
This makes me worried key people needed to clear blockers and run validation may be harder to get hold of than usual. I don't have any answers, just some general worry. :) Are there current blockers that could use some early pushing to avoid a crisis next week?
And particularly, Dennis Gilmore tells me that it's likely no one from Release Engineering able to do the composes will be available Tuesday at all.
I will be on leave for the upcoming tree weeks, so I miss this as well. Fortunately Jaroslav Reznik will substitute for Go/No-Go and Readiness meetings, even there are public holidays in CZ (Brno). However, it does not answer your question. If there is no one from RelEng on Tuesday, we can request compose on Monday. Unfortunately there are currently several blockers [1] which might not be fixed by Monday. It will consequently lead to missing RC compose and automatic No-Go. As I see it, we can pro-actively slip for one week to make time lines more predictable, or we can leave it as it is and try to do the best. I am adding Dennis and Mohan on CC to check whether Releng will be able to do the compose on Monday 2017-July-03 if requested.
So, yes. From my point of view the F26 final release on 2017-July-11 is jeopardized as well.
I agree with Jan. I think a week slip is the only realistic action, given the blockers and holidays, without resorting to a huge amount of hero testing. Frankly, I'd be kind of angry if Fedora as a project expected that to happen.
I thought we highlighted the holiday situation as a concern in previous discussions but I can't find them at the moment. If we did, I'm surprised we didn't proactively slip at that point.
josh