[cosmo-dev] Release terminology

[Andre Mueninghoff]

How about "Certification Candidate"?

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:20:42 -0800, "Mikeal Rogers"
<mikeal at osafoundation.org> said:
> 
> On Dec 11, 2007, at December 11, 200711:13 AM, Randy Letness wrote:
> 
> > Aparna Kadakia wrote:
> >> We don't want to complicate the testing process by adding another  
> >> level of testing checkpoints. QA relies on constantly building from  
> >> sources so verifying bugs will only be faster than waiting for the  
> >> next RC.  When QA is done with what we call "certification" (refer  
> >> to Mikeal's original email) , a final RC will be cut, sanity tested  
> >> by QA and ready for release.
> >>
> >
> > Ok I was confused.  I was under the impression that testing was done  
> > on RC builds only.  If testing is done from code built from the most  
> > recent source, then yes there is no need for checkpoint builds.  I  
> > think my point was when "Triple Zero" is hit, there is still a high  
> > probability of bugs being found due to new features so its kind of  
> > pointless to cut an RC before these features are tested.
> 
> The reason i think we should cut an RC build is to flush out build  
> related issues and give other people in the community something to  
> sink their teeth in to. We won't be using it in QA to do all of our  
> testing because we have the lab.osaf.us build system which builds in a  
> lot of extra production related options that we need to test and can  
> be rebuilt easily whenever a fix drops in to the branch that we need.
> 
> I guess the name of that build "Release Candidate" is misleading since  
> it isn't actually a viable candidate for release, but I'm out of new  
> names for things :)
> 
> >
> >
> > -Randy
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