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While OpenStack RC code often sufficiently tests services, packaging
concerns such as dependencies and default configuration options tend to lag
by one or more milestone/RC cycles. The RDO repository only contained
milestone 3 packages until just prior to the official release of Juno when
RC2 packages appeared in it. Testing packages (even just the core
services), writing patches, reviewing patches, and general time allocation
issues can delay a functional installation guide by a week or more beyond
the package release date. Furthermore, the RDO packages require testing on
RHEL/CentOS and Fedora plus the neutron and nova-network variations. I
would like to provide users with a mostly functional installation guide on
the official release date which would require availability of at least RC
packages at least one week prior to the official release date. The RDO
release packages becoming available yesterday afternoon and the plan to cut
juno/stable for openstack-manuals tomorrow gives us about one day to
install the packages on two distributions each with two variants, determine
the issues, write patches, test them, and run them through the review
process before all changes involve backports.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Steve Gordon <sgordon at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matt Kassawara" <mkassawara at gmail.com>
> > To: "Anne Gentle" <anne at openstack.org>
> >
> > If other reasons (outside of the installation guide) exist to move it on
> > the 29th rather than wait until after the summit, I can deal... but
> > backporting patches for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora will take more time and
> effort.
> > Not our fault RDO can't push release packages out in a reasonable amount
> of
> > time.
>
> Can you elaborate on what's reasonable so we can endeavour to accommodate
> in future? Our aim this time around was for +2 weeks on upstream release to
> allow some level of smoke testing to occur, despite that M-3 and RC
> packages that could have been used were available leading up to this.
>
> We've been communicating this to users @
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/rdo-list/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> The RDO Juno release packages for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora only became
> > >> available today [1] which leaves very little time for testing and
> patching
> > >> the installation guide prior to cutting juno/stable for
> openstack-manuals
> > >> on the 29th. Can we push it out a day or two?
> > >>
> > >
> > > I think if we don't do the 29th it'll be after Nov 7th due to Andreas's
> > > and my travel schedules, is that an okay solution?
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> [1]
> > >>
> https://openstack.redhat.com/forum/discussion/992/rdo-juno-packages-available
> > >>
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> --
> Steve Gordon, RHCE
> Sr. Technical Product Manager,
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
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