[Gluster-Maintainers] Master branch lock down for stabilization (unlocking the same)

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 6:05 AM Shyam Ranganathan <srangana at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> So we have had master locked down for a week to ensure we only get fixes
> for failing tests in order to stabilize the code base, partly for
> release-5 branching as well.
>
> As of this weekend, we (Atin and myself) have been looking at the
> pass/fail rates on the tests, and whether we are discovering newer
> failures of more of the same.
>
> Our runs with patch sets 10->11->12 is looking better than where we
> started, and we have a list of tests that we need to still fix.
>
> But there are other issues and fixes that are needed in the code that
> are lagging behind due to the lock down. The plan going forward is as
> follows,
>
> - Unlock master, and ensure that we do not start seeing newer failures
> as we merge other patches in, if so raise them on the lists and as bugs
> and let's work towards ensuring these are addressed. *Maintainers*
> please pay special attention when merging patches.
>
> - Address the current pending set of tests that have been identified as
> failing, over the course of the next 2 weeks. *Contributors* continue
> the focus here, so that we do not have to end up with another drive
> towards the same in 2 weeks.
>
> - At the end of 2 weeks, reassess master and nightly test status, and
> see if we need another drive towards stabilizing master by locking down
> the same and focusing only on test and code stability around the same.
>

When will there be a discussion about coming up with guidelines to prevent
lock down in future?

I think it is better to lock-down specific components by removing commit
access for the respective owners for those components when a test in a
particular component starts to fail.


>
> Atin and Shyam
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Pranith
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