2.5 Release Planning-18 (20080131)

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Attendees

  • Megan May (Meeting facilitator)
  • Peter Knoop (Sakai project coordinator & regular attendee)
  • James Logan (regular attendee)
  • Renu  (regular attendee)
  • David Haines (regular attendee)
  • David Horwitz
  • Linda Place
  • Anthony Whyte
  • Jean-François Lévêque
  • John F. Hall
  • Steven Githens

Meeting Agenda

Notes on Discussion Points

 Update From Capetown
Search problem is still outstanding.  
---> Seeing JSF with Samigo - stacked threads and the Samigo team.   
---> They have seen the problem - load on samigo is a bit higher than the rest.  Concurrant load is as high as they'll get.  No end user reports.  This morings one was traced to a lot of requests from 1 user.  SAK-11098
---> Michael asked about the large # of Forums exception reports dropped a lot.  David said that the fix has helped a lot.  

RC1 Tag
---> Cut the RC1 tag last night 'old style.  The problem is, from it he can't create release artifacts.  The way to make release artifacts in Maven2 don't .  Leverage maven release plug in.  he'll redo it all.  Should be able to include sighing the Samigo applet.  Would take the same revision.  In a sense it's like another beta cut and get it up on the QA machines.  RC_01.  The current tag cut still references m2, old goals.  There may be a change to the master pom.  doesn't reference the release plug in.  There may be a small change in that pom but the rest of them inherit from there.
*  David - there are three critical fixes that were merged in.    Might want to include them.   Change the release candidate.  we'll tack on a, b, c to distinguish between the

Review of Open/Critical List
* In the past, Michael has aimed for the next release.   Asked Peter to contact  him
* David Haines asked about the resolution of a few of the Critical Forum issues (Stats and Groups/Performance).  Updates on these are that there is ongoing work on the groups/performance, but there are not resources for working on the Stats.  Michael encourage folks to contact Lance if they had resources  or if the problem was resulting in a lot of pressure from their stakeholders.

Release Status

  • Time line Review - Beta2 tag cut on 9th.  RC1 should be cut and deployed by the time this meeting is held
  • Progress -
    • There are over 70 bug fixes going in from beta to beta2.  We were  down to 47 awaiting verification last week.  This week there are 39 awaiting verification
    • We're seen a lot of progress in the list awaiting verification.
    • % Bugs Verified

    • Date

          1. Awaiting Verification

      # Verified

      %

      1/11/2008

      453

      720

      ~61%

      1/30/2008

      405

      773

      ~66%

  • Areas to focus on - http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=11510

JSR-170 in 2.5

Summary of rationale for inclusion:   The technical merits of the proposal to merge in JSR-170 into 2.5.x were not a factor in the concerns that were raised.  Much of the discussion rose around violating our current processes (ie breaking code freeze) and the desire that changes to this process should be made in the future.  Given that the there is strong support from the development team, test plans to ensure that adverse effects are not felt, community willingness to assume the risk, community support to exercise the (experimental) code in production, and that this leverages our resources is the best way possible, that the recommendation is that these changes should be merged into 2.5.x after the beta2 tag has been cut. Rest assured, release process refinement will occur.

Testing Plan 

Steve Gitehns put up a to make sure that jackrabbit is really disabled and not doing anything. It will have to be run by someone with read access to the servers file system, logs, and database. The test plan for the JackRabbitService on the Test Plan/Scripts page on the attachments tab:

http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/QA/Test+Conditions+and+Scripts

In addition to compile time unit tests, Steve also wrote a small validation test that can be run against a live server to make sure it really is disabled with our deployment configurations.  There are 3 versions of it:

- A Jython script for Sash using the standard python unittest module.
(Obviously no one can run this until I get off my arse and tag another version of sash).
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/jcr/disabled-jackrabbitservice-tests/JackRabbitServiceTest.py

- A Standard Sakai JWS WebService and Client that can just be dropped in.  At the moment this is probably the only thing that doesn't require installing extra stuff on the QA servers.  This is not a real JUnit check, but just checks the 5 conditions manually and reports with a human readable string.
WS:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/jcr/disabled-jackrabbitservice-tests/DisabledJackRabbitServiceTest.jws
Client:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/jcr/disabled-jackrabbitservice-tests/JwsDisabledJackRabbitServiceTestClient.py

- A TestRunner test with a real JUnit test.  (Depends on having the testrunner installed, although you can the test without the GUI, again I need to get off my behind and finish polishing up the half finished GUI for it).
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/jcr/disabled-jackrabbitservice-tests/DisabledJackRabbitServiceTestRunner/

So far we're only testing that JackRabbit is disabled, will be adding some tests to make sure it's enabled and working as we go forward.  (smile)

Testing/Resources Needed

  1. Those  read access to the servers file system, logs, and database to run through manual verification (Megan can do this but would like for this to be done by others. )
  2. Someone to run validation test against live server

Longer Term

  1. When should this be flipped on for testing?

Overview of Time lines & Goals  (Standing item)

Timeline Review
  • Nov 7 tag 2.5.0.012
  • Nov 22 2.5.0.beta cut
  • Nov 26 2.5.0.beta deployed to QA network
  • January 9th 2.5.0.beta2 cut
  • January 10th deployed to QA network
  • Week of Jan 28th - RC1 cut
Goals
  • Elimination of all outstanding Blocker and Critical bugs for 2.5
  • Acceptable Performance testing on mysql and oracle databases for Assignments, Resources, Forums, GB & T&Q. What is acceptable? At this point in time, no degradation from performance experienced in 2.4
  • High degree of verification (85%) of resolved JIRA bugs
  • Confirmed functional testing on all tools.
  • Positive feedback from sites running a tagged version of off branch.

Stats on Issues Reported 

Progression

Q: How do we move from Beta? RC?
A: To make the progression from beta to release candidate, the aim is the resolution of outstanding blocker and critical bugs reported.

Q: Are we going to make the move from Beta to RC?
There are a number of critical issues reported against a 2.5 build we're not likely to get movement on due to resources being unavailable. What do we do with these problems?

A:  Some of them will be resolved in the next release or later in the maintenance branch.  These items should have a target version set and include comments in the rationale as to why they can't be resolved now.

Meeting Notes