Re: [tauruslib-devel] preparing Taurus Jul20 release (and cancelling Jan20)

[Carlos Pascual-I. <cpa...@ce...>]

Hi,

I regret to say that I did not get a flood of replies, reviews or fixes 
after my last calls for help with the Jul20 Taurus release. Please note 
that the team at ALBA that used to do this is now reduced to... mostly me.

   So...


**This is a last desperate S.O.S. call for help with the Jul20 Taurus 
release.**


Wednesday is my last day before holidays, and I want to leave a testable 
release candidate). Therefore Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the last day for 
merging all the PRs pending to be integrated in the "ready for review" 
column in [1] .


I would very much prefer if someone else reviewed the PRs that I coded, 
but if that is not the case, I'll self-merge myself.


So, please, even if you are not an official "taurus integrator" please 
pick some PR from the "ready for review" column of [1], and leave a 
comment with your review of it.

Also, once the release candidate artifact is ready, please help with the 
manual release tests (see [2])


Cheers!

Carlos


[1] https://github.com/taurus-org/taurus/projects/3

[2] 
https://github.com/taurus-org/taurus/blob/develop/doc/how_to_release.md#manual-test-checklist






On 7/6/20 12:01 PM, Carlos Pascual-Izarra wrote:
> Hi, in order to facilitate coordination, I created the following 
> "project":
>
> https://github.com/taurus-org/taurus/projects/3
>
> Here you can see a kanban table with "to-do", "in progress", "ready 
> for review" and "done" columns.
>
> Please do not be shy and take any task from the "to do" column , 
> moving it to "in progress" to indicate that you are working on it.
>
> Alternatively, just review a task from the "ready for review". After a 
> satisfactory review, if you have permissions directly merge it,  and , 
> if you don't  just report your review in a comment.
>
> Any help would be much much much appreciated!
>
> And of course, I'll be happy to help if you have any questions or need 
> some help in fixing/reviewing a task (just use the comments in the 
> issue/PR).
>
> Cheers!
>
> Carlos
>
>
> On 6/30/20 11:06 PM, Carlos Pascual-Izarra wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> July is "tomorrow"
>>
>> ... meaning that we should hurry to get the release in time.
>>
>> I've concentrated efforts lately in removing what I considered the 
>> main blockers for the new release: the unreliability of the test 
>> suite and the basic entry-point based plugins. With these two things 
>> cleared, I think that it is now easier to work on the remaining 
>> issues planned for the July20 milestone [1].
>>
>> Still, unfortunately, it seems clear that we at ALBA won't have 
>> enough time to solve all the issues currently listed in [1]. 
>> Therefore I am making a call for help to the rest of the taurus 
>> community to try to fix as much of those issues as possible until the 
>> 14th of July (after that we should do the release tests and the 
>> release itself).
>>
>> Please don't be shy!  ;)
>>
>> Carlos
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/7/20 11:57 PM, Carlos Pascual-Izarra wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> As you probably noticed, this year we broke our promise of 
>>> delivering the "January" release of Taurus.
>>>
>>> This was due to a combination of unexpectedly increased workload, 
>>> reduction in ALBA's Taurus dev team,  concurrence of several 
>>> release-critical bugs and plain bad planning from my side (sorry!).
>>>
>>> At this point it makes not sense to keep the Jan20 milestone open, 
>>> so I moved all the tasks to Jul20 and I'll try to concentrate 
>>> efforts on getting that one ready.
>>>
>>> If there is some specific issue that you deem specially important, 
>>> please comment it in the issue itself so that we can prioritise.
>>>
>>> Of course, as usual, any help will be very welcome (reporting/fixing 
>>> bugs, testing, documenting,...).
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
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