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ParticipantsNed Batchelder (Deactivated) Joel Barciauskas (Deactivated) Feanil Patel (Deactivated) Alison Hodges

Retrospective

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What did we do well?

  • Django 1.8 upgrade automated
  • Building nightly boxes now
  • Interrupt-driven devops interaction was ok
    • One devops person for whole process was good
  • "Venn diagram of success"
  • Got good with vagrant and virtualbox snapshots
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What should we have done better?

  • The Dogwood wiki page had details that Ned overlooked
  • Named release process page didn't have important details (like docs details)
  • Some projects didn't know what "being in Dogwood" meant.
    • Analytics
    • Otto

  • Pulling together release notes was difficult

    • Weekly release notes are aimed at a different audience
  • Some repos didn't release properly, so the Dogwood tag is on an old commit.
  • Didn't test all the configurations
    • Sandbox
    • 12.04
  • Not clear which of the many installation methods need to be supported in a named release
  • Unclear about milestones getting to final (are we waiting on docs, devops, or eng at the moment?)
  • Needed to announce Dogwood rc cut!
    • It was announced in scrum-of-scrums
    • We never sent an email about it
  • readthedocs was very difficult
  • Tagging tool was broken at the last minute
  • Still working to make docs completely Cypress-clean
  • Lack of transparency about dogwood status
  • Doc process page was old and out of date
  • Test cycle is slow, upgrading to dogwood could take 90 min

 

Things We Know Now?

  • Being in Dogwood means "these repos work together", maybe not install, maybe not supported.

Actions

  •  Alison Hodges update the doc process page
  •  Ned Batchelder (Deactivated) update the Process to Make a Named Release page
  •  Feanil Patel (Deactivated) Somehow get people to tag PRs for needing release notes in the next named release?
  •  Ned Batchelder (Deactivated) work out how to reduce the number of install options, with Feanil: fullstack is like sandbox.sh, but with a base box to avoid numpy/scipy compile time. This is now
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  •  Feanil Patel (Deactivated) try to get numpy or scipy wheels to reduce installation time, to reduce test cycles
  •  Ned Batchelder (Deactivated) Make an explicit list of configurations to test.  This is 
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  •  Ned Batchelder (Deactivated) Send an email to eng pointing to the Eucalyptus page, asking for updates