#5215: Stage comps and spin-kickstarts during freezes
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Reporter: adamwill | Owner: rel-eng@…
Type: task | Status: new
Milestone: Fedora 18 Alpha | Component: git
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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.
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