Re: Proposal to increase the beta freeze to 3 weeks

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On 21 November 2017 at 04:22, Jan Kurik <jkurik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 17 November 2017 at 13:30, Randy Barlow <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Greetings fellow Fedorans!
>>>
>>> During today's FESCo meeting[0], there was discussion around a proposal
>>> to increase the freeze period from 2 weeks to 3 weeks[1]. Several
>>> members of FESCo thought this proposal might be unpopular with Fedora
>>> developers, so a compromise proposal was made: increase the beta freeze
>>> to 3 weeks, but keep the stable freeze at 2 weeks[2].
>>>
>>> We would like to ask for feedback from the Fedora community about this
>>> proposal. Feel free to reply here, or comment on the FESCo ticket.
>>> Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
>>
>> How many of the last "long" freezes have happened because of bad
>> software and how much has happened because other issues caused
>> composes to actually test not to be created? We "seem" to spend a lot
>> of the freeze working for an actual working compose before we can
>> actually see what is going on in with the software that people want.
>>
>> Would it make more sense to just have the Freeze not start until we
>> have a bootable compose? [I realize this is a overflowing stack
>> recursive loop if not defined adequetely define bootable but if QA
>> can't test an install until week 2 of the freeze.. we weren't ready to
>> freeze for packages.
>
> I do not think this is the case.
>

Thank you for clarifying the below. I have worked on Fedora Project
for N years and it is clear that I have been going off some wrong
views.

> In general there are two types of composes. We have nightly composes
> and we have RC composes. The nightly composes are built on daily basis
> and even these fail from time to time, we mostly have a new "bootable
> compose" every day. The reason why we spent most of the time of a
> Freeze period waiting for an RC compose is a condition that an RC
> compose must not contain any known blocker. So, it is not matter of
> the compose it self, it is a matter of fixing know blockers before QA
> can ask for and RC compose. Also the reason why a Freeze period is
> prolonged is typically an unresolved blocker(s). From outside it might
> look like an issue with an RC compose it self, but in fact the RC
> compose is typically blocked by a blocker bug(s).
>
> Note: what I wrote above does not apply to Fedora Modular Server,
> which is a special case due to extensive changes in development
> infrastructure.
>
> Jan
>
>>
>>>
>>>  [0]
>>> https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-11-17/fesco.2017-11-17-16.03.html
>>> [1] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1790
>>> [2] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1790#comment-480090
>>>
>>>
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>>
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