Re: [xwiki-devs] Status of the release

On Apr 28, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Caleb James DeLisle wrote: > >> I offered to take over the release since Jerome was unable to do it and right now we have 38 test >> failures. >> 16 selenium1 tests, >> 6 selenium2/ui-tests >> 16 webstandards tests. >> >> We have 3 options: >> 1. We can release now and accept bugs in the release. >> 2. We can have volunteers to take over tests and get them passing for tomorrow so tomorrow I can >> release. >> 3. We can opt to postpone the release. If I work on these alone I expect it to take about 1 week as >> long as nobody commits code which introduces further regressions. >> >> I don't think postponing the release is wise at this point and #2 is contingent upon volunteers >> claiming ownership of specific tests so I think #1 is the lesser of the evils. >> >> Do I hear any objections/volunteers? > > I fear 1 will make a precedent meaning that we'll consider it in the future too to do that, meaning that tests will have less and less values. Right now they don't seem to have any value since apparently nobody cares about them since we keep having issues when doing releases whereas they should just all run all the time. Normally when someone commits something and it fails the tests, that person must fix the code/test and not wait till the release happens. So we need to fix this somehow. Ideas anyone?

Actually what would be good is also to verify manually that the tests are not real issues because if they are we shouldn't release or if we do release then it's because we've considered the bugs to be non blocking and they'll need to be detailed in the release notes as regressions. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs