Re: Heads up: From F24 there will be nightly validation events mixed with candidate ones

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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 21:16 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Adam Williamson
>> <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 12:02 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > 2) The 'interesting package change' check is at present quite dumb and
>> > > only checks if there's any difference. This means we might actually
>> > > create a nightly event four days after a candidate event because a
>> > > package in the nightly compose is *older* than a package in the
>> > > candidate compose, because we haven't pushed a blocker/FE fix stable
>> > > yet. This seems wrong, and I think I'll try to make the check a bit
>> > > more sophisticated (i.e. check that the changed package is *newer*).
>> > > Doing that entirely correctly is quite difficult, but doing it to a
>> > > 'good enough' level probably isn't.
>> > Welp, I just fixed this. Good thing I did too, because now I test it, I
>> > realize we would've got a nightly validation event tomorrow, otherwise
>> > :P Now the 'significant package change' check will only pass if all
>> > significant packages are *newer* in the compose that just appeared, not
>> > if they're *different*.
>
>> Aha, so *if* there's a regression, it should be the one step forward
>> and/or step(s) sideways type, rather than the backwards type?
>
> Well that, but most practically speaking, it should prevent creating
> nightly events while we're validating an RC as it's unlikely the test
> will ever pass at that particular point in time.

Gotcha, that's even better.


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