[cut-team] Snapshots

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 27/08/10 at 18:17 -0700, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 17:21, Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> wrote:
> > I am all for something that is easy, especially to start, but I think we
> > may have other reasons to want multiple snapshots. One is so that
> > upgrades from the current to the next snapshot can be tested (for
> > more than the 6 hours before the next britney run) before releasing it.
> 
> Hmm, I was working on the assumption that the "constantly usable" part
> of CUT would let us choose a snapshot to release without much stress;
> if we're talking about more than maybe an hour's worth of automatic
> checks to make that decision, things might get more complicated. I
> guess that comes down to what guarantees you actually want to offer
> vis-a-vis
> 
>     """In general the procedures for updating testing should ensure
> any snapshot is almost entirely functional, and users should not be
> led to expect the same level of quality from CUT snapshots as they
> would expect from a stable release."""

If we had a separate rolling suite, we could freeze it for a few days
without affecting testing. That would allow to do some final QA before
the snapshot is made.

Lucas