ReleaseEngineering/Meetings/2008-apr-28

Fedora Release Engineering Meeting :: Monday 2008-04-28

Fedora 9

• over 300 packages in dist-f9 that are not f9-final
• 50-55 bugs on the blocker list that aren't in MODIFIED
• serious blocker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=443445
• Cannot install packages from repositories from which RPM-GPG-KEYs have not been installed
• See log for more details

Release Candidate

• start spinning RCs on Thursday or Friday of this week

IRC Transcript

-!- f13 changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: Fedora Release Engineering Meeting - ROll Call		13:03
rdieter	yo	13:03
f13	ping: spot rdieter lmacken	13:04
notting	rdieter: whoops, knew i forgot someone. sorry.	13:04
* spot is here		13:04
* wwoods in the house like furniture		13:04
skvidal	wwoods: nailed to the floor and covered with rubber?	13:05
-!- f13 changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: rel-eng meeting: F9!		13:05
f13	so... I've been gone for a few days, how's F9?	13:05
warren	notting pointed out over 300 packages in dist-f9 that are not f9-final.  Should we be concerned?	13:05
warren	is the buildroot f9-final or dist-f9?	13:06
f13	warren: buildroot is f9-final	13:06
warren	k	13:06
f13	I sent out a call to arms a week ago to help with this, a more targetted look	13:06
notting	we've got ~50-55 bugs on the blocker list that aren't in MODIFIED	13:06
f13	what I really want is to look through the blocker list, see what has been closed since the freeze, and which of those packages are in teh 300 list	13:06
wwoods	F9 is... worrying me a bit. I've been monitoring the blocker list	13:06
wwoods	AFAICT: in the past week, we've closed 20-30 blockers	13:07
wwoods	and added the same number	13:07
notting	re: those 300 packages. i was going to send mail with the list. should i take the time to do individual mails to the package maintainers, or just dump to -devel-list?	13:07
f13	wwoods: are they actual "blockers"?  I haven't done any incoming review of them	13:07
f13	notting: hrm, I assume you'd rather just dump to the list right?	13:08
notting	f13: yes :)	13:08
wwoods	on the bright (?) side I think we found our traditional "oh shit oh shit" last-minute nastybug	13:08
wwoods	bug 443445	13:08
buggbot	Bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=443445 low, urgent, ---, Robin Norwood, ASSIGNED , Cannot install packages from repositories from which RPM-GPG-KEYs have not been installed.	13:08
f13	wwoods: which is funny as "last minute" given that we had signed packages over a week ago	13:08
wwoods	I'd say.. probably half the bugs on the blocker list are actually blockerworthy	13:08
wwoods	well, okay, maybe there's still room for another last-minute doombug	13:10
* rdieter covers ears, la la la		13:11
notting	f13: also, when sending this mail, should we move the pkgs to updates-candidate?	13:11
wwoods	but in my estimation that's the only bug on the list that is both a) a non-negotiable release blocker, and b) the correct fix would definitely take longer than we have	13:12
f13	notting: getting to that later	13:12
wwoods	pretty much everything else is, you know.. a one-line fix. it just takes a week to figure out which line to change.	13:13
* wwoods exaggerating and oversimplifying		13:13
f13	heh	13:14
wwoods	speaking of signed packages: did someone sign the 3 unsigned packages (control-center, gnome-desktop, gnome-settings-daemon)	13:14
f13	ok, I'll try to roll my sleeves up and do some review/culling today	13:14
f13	wwoods: I do believe notting took care of that	13:14
notting	yes	13:14
wwoods	kcool.	13:14
f13	(and also, wasn't that a great test of what the tools will do when an unsigned package is encountered?)	13:14
wwoods	heh. yes!	13:14
wwoods	clever move, that	13:14
warren	do we know how unsigned packages are making it into the mirrors?	13:15
warren	those 3 weren't the only unsigned	13:16
* poelcat was just going to ask about those :)		13:16
f13	warren: the mash output will tell us when there is something unsigned.	13:16
warren	f13: was mash doing so a few days ago?	13:16
notting	those 3 was because they were tagged on saturday (?) and neither f13 nor I got around to signing them before rawhide went out	13:16
wwoods	a few days ago we weren't requiring signed packages	13:16
warren	notting: and the case where ltsp went out unsigned is a mystery?	13:16
f13	wwoods: yea we were	13:16
notting	warren: yeah	13:16
wwoods	only after we changed fedora-release	13:17
f13	wwoods: right, which was nearly a week ago	13:17
wwoods	warren: the basic problem here is that the f9 repo is actually just a redirect to rawhide	13:17
warren	For the reason of those 3 packages I'm afraid of tagging anything myself now.	13:18
warren	That's why my participation on rel-eng list dropped off	13:18
wwoods	so if a package gets tagged without being signed it goes out unsigned	13:18
wwoods	which is a problem	13:18
warren	There is no guarantee that f13 or notting will be around	13:18
wwoods	so, yeah, the tag has to be done by someone with the signing key	13:18
* wwoods not tagging anything unless a signer is around anymore		13:18
f13	or just don't do a fire-forget	13:18
warren	wwoods: there are two separate issues, that, and ltsp which was signed but went out unsigned anyway.	13:18
wwoods	yeah I don't know anything about that	13:19
f13	warren: what day did it go out unsigned?	13:19
warren	f13: I don't know, only noticed it yesterday	13:19
notting	f13: it has cached signatures from 04-18. dunno if it had signed packages, because apparently calling write-signed-rpms rewrites them	13:19
f13	warren: what arch?	13:20
warren	f13: x86_64 for sure, I didn't look at others	13:20
f13	checking the mash archives, it doesn't appear to have been sinced since before 4/20 at least	13:21
warren	if it is happening for this one package, perhaps it is happening to others/	13:21
f13	warren: I don't think so.	13:21
f13	but we can quickly check	13:22
f13	$ find /pub/fedora/linux/development/ -name "*.rpm"|xargs rpmdev-checksig |grep -v 4f2a6fd2	13:22
f13	that's running on releng1, it'll tell us what things are unsigned.  I only expect ltsp	13:23
notting	f13: hey, ok if i clean out a couple months of ancient rawhide trees?	13:23
f13	notting: yes	13:23
f13	ok, we're actually finding a bit more unsigned, I"ll clean these up today	13:24
wwoods	are there signers other than f13 and notting?	13:25
warren	f13: what type of unsigned?  tagged but not signed, or like ltsp?	13:25
f13	warren: it wouldn't be in the development/ directory if it weren't tagged.	13:26
notting	f13: i wonder if it's generally unsigned, or write-signed-rpms failed somewhere	13:26
f13	warren: likely it's another case where the cached signature exists, but the written copy doesn't for reasons of signed_unsigned being a steaming pile of shit.	13:26
notting	haha. markmc already sent the list of new stuff to fedora-devel	13:26
f13	notting: nice	13:27
wwoods	doh! I'm on the list	13:28
f13	hah, somehow I am too	13:28
f13	well nwo that we've talked the signing issue to death, lets move on a bit	13:30
-!- f13 changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: rel-eng meeting: dist-f9-updates-candidate		13:30
notting	f13: it's created, but unpopulated (and not the default)	13:30
f13	we really need to start directing builds to go there, and make bodhi start accepting update requests	13:30
f13	however that means we would then have to do two steps when tagging things, move-pkg from dist-f9-updates-candidate to dist-f9, and then tag for f9-final	13:31
f13	well, I guess we don't /have/ to, but it does make things cleaner	13:32
lmacken	so shall I add F9 to bodhi, and allow for submissions ?	13:32
wwoods	people have already tried to build f-9 updates	13:32
f13	lmacken: only once we've setup dist-f9-updates-candidate with allt he pending things in dist-f9	13:33
lmacken	ok	13:33
notting	f13: shall i move over all these things?	13:33
f13	and, you'll have to keep it from showing up in teh push lists so that we can continue pusing f7/8 updates	13:33
lmacken	f13: yep, there is a 'locked' boolean for each release that does just that	13:33
f13	notting: sure, just remember we have to do move-pkg when tagging now	13:33
warren	move-pkg from dist-f9-updates-candidate to dist-f9?	13:34
f13	warren: yes, and then tag-pkg f9-final	13:35
warren	f13: is there any time of night we should be able to tag until without fear?	13:36
notting	when did we move rawhide to?	13:37
warren	notting: I was referring to "will f13 or notting sign stuff"	13:37
f13	warren: just make sure one of us is around to sign.	13:38
notting	warren: right, but that's still a relevant data point	13:38
notting	midnight eastern should be fine	13:38
warren	ok	13:39
notting	and possibly later if i'm paying attention	13:39
notting	oh good. packages that abort in %post . *sigh*	13:39
f13	WHAM	13:40
notting	wwoods: one more blocker for you!	13:40
wwoods	expletives!	13:40
wwoods	oh yeah: the mouse capplet needs a package which wasn't submitted for review until saturday	13:41
wwoods	ha ha ha!	13:41
notting	f13: ok, will send mail about the shuffle to devel-announce & -evel	13:41
wwoods	who do we poke to get that through with the quickness?	13:42
f13	wwoods: any packager can review it	13:42
f13	wwoods: including you!  (:	13:42
wwoods	aw dammit	13:43
-!- f13 changed the topic of #fedora-meeting to: rel-eng meeting: release candidates		13:43
f13	The schedule has us spinning RCs as of Thursday/Friday of this week	13:44
f13	The box that I use to do composes was supposed to get moved into the Boston lab, and subsequently moved early over to the new building and thus be available over the weekend	13:44
f13	As of yet, I cannot reconnect to said box	13:44
f13	jeremy was handling this, and I do not know what the expected state of things is, so I'm not in panic mode yet	13:45
wwoods	what happens if it turns out the box is on fire or something?	13:48
wwoods	is there a backup plan?	13:48
f13	yeah	13:48
notting	we find a different box :)	13:49
f13	all I need is an x86_64 machine that can run mock	13:49
wwoods	I assume it's just "grab another machine with fat disks"	13:49
wwoods	yeah	13:49
f13	I think we have... a few of those.	13:49
wwoods	'kay	13:49
f13	hey guess what?  more corrupted packages!	13:49
f13	paraview needs a rebuild.	13:49
notting	*sigh*	13:49
warren	How dangerous is it to add the entire list of new packages to f9-final?	13:50
notting	warren: i wouldn't	13:50
pingou	!	13:51
f13	warren: uh, no.	13:52
f13	pingou: that's not necessary in this meeting.	13:52
pingou	sorry I have just seen that <f13> wwoods: any packager can review it but if you need help why not ask around ? I believe you have other things to do than a review no ?	13:52
warren	I wasn't suggesting it, just asking about the danger.	13:53
wwoods	yeah, I'll probably just ask around in #fedora-devel	13:53
f13	warren: thats a rather giant pile of untested packages and we've got 4 working days until RC	13:53
wwoods	okay so candidates will get built later this week and we should rock on down the blocker list until then	13:57
wwoods	anything else we need to cover? I asked all the questions I've got, I think	13:58
rdieter	wwoods: can I have a sec (after meeting is ok)?	13:59
wwoods	rdieter: sure	14:00
notting	lmacken: want me to poke you when i'm done moving stuff to updates-candidate?	14:00
f13	I think that's it	14:00

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