Juju SRU and QA plans

[Adam Conrad]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:49:05PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 07:34:12AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > If they aren't going to reuse the version number, why not go ahead and 
> > release?  Seems much simpler workflow wise and if there's a problem, they're 
> > bumping to a new version anyway.  Nothing says they have to advertise the new 
> > release until after things are all verified.
> 
> This comes down to what we mean by "release". Given that they won't
> re-use the version number, we might as well say that they are doing
> exactly what you suggest: they are "releasing", but just not advertising
> the new "release" except to testers.

Right, I think Scott and I are saying the same thing here.  If the version
is "used up", it's "released", even if you don't advertise it widely.

Maybe the release is just a tag in a VCS or something until it's verified
in Ubuntu, that's entirely fine, IMO.

If they were doing pre-release versions, it would make sense to test in a
PPA, but then you'd still need to re-upload and re-test when you bump the
version number to "final".  If every SRU upload is already a "final",
then there's no reason for the extra PPA machinery.  Throw it at -proposed
and see how it treats you.

... Adam