Re: [External] Re: Respins for OEM preloads

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On 20/01/2021 15:30, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 17:11 +0100, Kamil Paral wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 6:44 PM Mark Pearson <markpearson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Release cadence is once. We just can't update our preload images that
>>> often - there's a long test cycle, and energy certification that goes
>>> with that image. It's one of the reasons the X1C8 is still shipping with
>>> Fedora32, and P1G3 and P15 (soon!) will be with F33 for a long time. The
>>> only reason to update would be a critical bug that couldn't be fixed
>>> with an update once the platform was received.
>>>
>>
>> If the cadence is once in a long time (related to new hardware
>> introductions, so possibly once a year or similar), I think the best
>> approach here is to have releng manually trigger an F33 Workstation Live
>> image compose using the current updates repo. Assuming it's not a problem
>> for them. We (the QA) can then trigger an OpenQA test run on it, create the
>> release validation test matrices for it, and even ask the community in
>> large to perform some manual tests if they have time. I believe some of us
>> would devote some time to make sure at least the basics work correctly. I'm
>> not sure if all the plumbing for this one-off compose is ready (in fedfind,
>> relval, openqa and wherever else needed), but Adam will know more.
> 
> Yeah, I don't think that should be really tricky for anyone. I'd
> suggest we just run it as a post-release nightly compose rather than a
> candidate and don't give it any kind of label. I don't think it should
> be hard for releng to run that, and I should be able to run openQA
> tests and even create a validation event if necessary, I might need to
> metaphorically whang a few things with a hammer because it won't quite
> fit the normal flows but it shouldn't be a big deal.
> 
That would be awesome and very much appreciated :) Let me know anything
we can do to help

Mark
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