Sprint End 11-Oct, Demos and Repo Freeze

Steve Linabery slinaber at redhat.com
Tue Oct 9 16:11:40 UTC 2012


On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 10:02:29AM -0400, Hugh Brock wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:53:17AM -0400, Mike Orazi wrote:
> > On 10/05/2012 10:15 AM, Hugh Brock wrote:
> > >On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 09:04:13AM -0500, Steve Linabery wrote:
> > >>Hi aeolus community,
> > >>
> > >>The current upstream development sprint officially ends on Thursday, 11-Oct-2012.
> > >>
> > >>In an ideal world all patches would be on list by COB on Monday. All patches should be reviewed and pushed by Tuesday. This gives us a little breathing room for testing before the demo.
> > >>
> > >>Thank you in advance for your cooperation!
> > >>Steve|eggs
> > >
> > >Hmmm... Have we forgotten about the week we said we were going to give
> > >QE to test the upstream code before the demos? I thought that was a
> > >permanent part of the process now.
> > >
> > >--Hugh
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > I have to apologize here.  I asked Steve to coordinate and send this
> > notification out so we could close the door on the present sprint
> > and start again.
> > 
> > While we have been striving to have QE to be more involved in each
> > upstream sprint priorities dictated that most of the the usual
> > suspects spend their time in other areas this sprint.  As those
> > commitments appear to be wrapping up, I think we'll see a lot more
> > involvement in the next several sprints.
> > 
> > Overall though, I think this really does speak to the idea that the
> > quality of the project is a shared responsibility and it is really
> > important that everyone takes a little of the burden on themselves
> > to make sure we maintain working, testable, tested code.
> 
> OK. No problem this time, but: I think it is really, really important
> that in future sprints we maintain the idea of having a freeze well
> before the end of the sprint (5-7 days) to allow for testing by whomever
> is charged with testing. I think this is a key part of having working
> software at the end of the sprint... and if we don't have working
> software at the end of the sprint, then we are doing something wrong.
> 
> --Hugh
> 
> -- 
> == Hugh Brock, hbrock at redhat.com                                   ==
> == Engineering Manager, Cloud BU                                   ==
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> 
> "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m
> not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
> --Robert McCloskey

Violent agreement here.

Steve



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