Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 6 month release cycle

[Dennis Hübner <dennis.huebner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 09.07.2013 um 11:41 schrieb Mickael Istria:

On 07/08/2013 09:49 PM, Konstantin Komissarchik wrote:

1. New contributions are piled on, aggregation happens, problems are found and need to be sorted out manually. Meanwhile, aggregation is broken and more contributions pile on. The solution is to remove direct access to aggregation metadata and process one contribution at a time. When a contribution request is made, aggregation is performed. If it fails, the contribution is rejected and the contributing project gets to figure out what’s wrong without affecting anyone else.

Seems like using Gerrit to process contributions into aggregator would help. However, it means that someone has to review and merge this contributions manually; but if this Gerrit review also triggers a Jenkins build that validates the aggregation (without publishing it), it wouldn't be too difficult to maintain as it would spot some errors early and automatically.

A lot of failed builds were caused by missing (suddenly deleted/disappeared) artifacts not by incoming model changes.

So autovalidation by Jenkins will probably prevent maintainers to submit a patch which fixes, but depends on the broken master state.

So IMHO gerrit would not eliminate the problem in the whole, but can probably make the maintenance not that easy

Best regards,

Dennis Hübner

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