[Opendnssec-develop] OpenDNSSEC 1.4.0a2

[Sara Dickinson]

Hi, 

My thoughts would be that since producing tarballs isn't a great overhead then the benefit of making is easier for users to test the alpha makes it worth doing? 

Other comments on the updated Release process:

- I would like to see the code review at the top of the list - in fact it could be argued this should be part of the development/pre-release process, not the release process since it is the responsibility of the developers not the person doing the release 
- Are any code integrity tools run regularly e.g. Coverity? It seems like this should be done before a major and probably a minor release after code review updates.
- Given the above it should be clear exactly who does what. We could define a "Release Manager" role.
- I think it the process could clarify more between minor/major/patch releases (e.g. in terms of documentation and package maintenance)
- Step 6. Seems like it would be better if a single person did all the announce updates - seems to make sense that this is the Project Manager? 

IMHO it would also be nice to have a release criteria defined e.g. no open blocker/critical bugs and all open major bugs have workarounds. Any thoughts on this?

I can take a pass at updating the process after some feedback on the above.....

One more thought on the Release Engineering process defined in step 5 - could steps 4,5 and 6 of this be automated in a Jenkins job that is run manually?

Sara.

On 29 May 2012, at 08:38, Rickard Bellgrim wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Jakob Schlyter <jakob at kirei.se> wrote:
>> http://www.opendnssec.org/files/source/testing/opendnssec-1.4.0a2.tar.gz
>> 
>> sorry for the delay, kind of missed we did tar-balls of alphas.
> 
> No problem. I now checked the release process and could not find any
> clear distinction between the alpha releases and the final releases
> w.r.t tarballs. Perhaps we need to clarify that?
> 
> // Rickard
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