[ovirt-devel] Automated builds and releases

[Sven Kieske]

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On 05.06.2015 14:06, David Caro wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> 
> In an effort to improve the project workflow and ease the
> maintenance and improve the quality of the project releases I want
> to propose start working towards automated builds and releases, the
> main ideas are the following:
> 
> 
> * Stop building differently for release and non-release: - Building
> only once, testing what you build and release what you test - Don't
> use two different version strings, one for testing and one for 
> release
> 
> * Automate the build process, and the release process, directly
> getting the code from the repos (no manual build tarballs)
> 
> * Adopt semantic versioning, it's a lot more meaningful than the
> current scheme and fits very well with the above points
> 
> 
> 
> This will ease and lower the maintenance and the extra work
> required by maintainers, release engineers (sandro) and infra
> itself by making releases as easy as hitting a button at any time.
> That will allow us to lower the time features and fixes get to the
> users, and deliver packages and builds that have passed through all
> the tests we have, instead of rebuilding on another env, at another
> time, by someone else, and passing only manual testing.
> 
> 
> wdyt?
> 

a big +1 from a community member, not so much a coder :-)

keep up the good work!

kind regards

Sven

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