On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobinson@gmail.com wrote:
This is why SOPs are good. I think there was half a dozen or so replies (both on list and IRC) as to what people though the procedure was. If there was a group of OOB SOPs for both Stable and Dev releases it would all be nicely documented somewhere central :-)
Just to add what I mentioned on IRC, there is already quite extensive documentation for the release process and details such as these: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Process (and sub pages)
It is perhaps lacking in some details on this particular point (such as the exact olpc-os-builder config lines needed to implement the process as described), but if people read that, discussions such as these would not veer so far off-course.
These difficulties are also temporary, Peter seems to have been thrown various release manager tasks which he will not have to deal with once the ARM work joins the 11.3.0 stream. This should be the priority; I think it would be beneficial if we were to be more understanding that ARM builds are currently not fully in sync. Once Peter has managed to eliminate the remaining package differences, allowing him to join the stream, many of these problems will be automatically resolved (through updated packages, and through not duplicating release management work). Providing Peter with less distractions so that he can focus on the real issues would probably be beneficial.
I am not away, I am responsive to emails and IRC every day, and I am working. I simply don't have as many hours available as normal for a little while longer.
Daniel