[platform-releng-dev] Fw: Plans for RC1 warmup for Friday, 1/17: Plan A

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I see I sent this to "bounces"
instead of correct address. 

Well, we are past Plan A now ... on
to Plan B? 

I have hidden the "bad builds"
and disconnected them from the 4.3-M-Builds composite. 



----- Forwarded by David
M Williams/Raleigh/IBM on 01/17/2014 06:35 AM -----

From:      
 David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM
To:      
 platform-releng-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx,

Date:      
 01/17/2014 03:56 AM
Subject:    
   Plans for RC1
warmup for Friday, 1/17:  Plan A, Plan B, Plan C ...

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One more note before I sleep :) 

I've chatted with Arun and Dani in the
last few hours and here's the approach we'll take for our final day for
"Kepler RC1". 

Plan A. The current build in progress
miraculously works and we'll go with that. (It's actually pretty far along,
so we should know soon)

Plan B. Arun thinks it will fail again,
and he thinks he knows what the problem is and will investigate, and prepare
a patch, but even then will have to wait for "Equinox/Launcher"
committer to wake up :) to get it committed ... assuming they agree, etc.
So if Plan A fails, we'll try plan B, but even then it may not be ready
until "late Friday afternoon" ... later than we'd like, but,
still on time. 

Plan C. If the first two plans fail
for what ever reason ... either for technical issues or just that the right
people are not available at the right time, then we will "revert"
to the Wednesday morning 8 AM build (M20140115-0800),
and then get the launcher/swt changes in for next weeks M-build (and clearly
by RC2, which is in two weeks). 

The implication of "Plan C"
is that we acknowledge that two builds since M20140115-0800
(the "good one"), are not adequate to use for RC1: M20140115-1810,
and M20140116-0900 . Therefore, (with miles
to go before I sleep :) I plan
this evening to "hide" builds M20140115-1810 and M20140116-0900
to minimize a little confusion on Friday. Plus, I will "disconnect"
them from the composite 4.3-M-builds (after current build completes). If
things do go well, then nothing lost ... if things do not go well, then
we will perhaps avoid a little community confusion on Friday. 
[My advice to anyone already using M20140115-1810
or M20140116-0900 is to do nothing until we know if one of the other plans
work, since if they do, then it will be business as usual for you.  But,
if we do have to revert all they way back to Wednesday's 8 AM build, and
you are already using one of the more recent two, then you may have to
back-peddle some to get correct versions ... and code! But, wait to see
how it goes before taking drastic measures. I am simply "hidding"
the builds to help avoid others from using them on Friday and then learning
a few hours later they are not correct and they have to revert.  

Just wanted to keep the team informed
in case you see builds "disappear" over night. 
Depending on how it turns out, I'll
make announcement larger audience on cross-project list on Friday.