#5215: Stage comps and spin-kickstarts during freezes -----------------------------+------------------------ Reporter: adamwill | Owner: rel-eng@… Type: task | Status: new Milestone: Fedora 18 Alpha | Component: git Keywords: | Blocked By: Blocking: | -----------------------------+------------------------ As noted on the F17 QA retrospective by me and Bruno Wolff:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_QA_Retrospective

it's a problem that we use git master of both comps and spin-kickstarts for composes - not the latest packaged version - and both these git repos are not frozen during freezes.

During the 17 cycle, we had a concrete example of a comps change during a freeze causing considerable trouble: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=807879 - pulling Boxes into comps during the Beta freeze made that issue a serious problem. For spin-kickstarts, the same kind of thing is possible, and we also have a release criterion requiring a spin-kickstarts package which matches the .ks files used for the compose to be present in the release repository; obviously, the lack of a git freeze makes this tricky to ensure.

So we would strongly recommend, at minimum, a mechanism for freezing spin- kickstarts and comps at Alpha, Beta and Final freeze. Post-freeze changes could be made following the same blocker/NTH process used for other post- freeze changes.