Re: rc1 is DOA. What now? (was: 1.7.0-rc1 up for testing / signing)

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Hyrum K Wright
<hyrum.wright_at_wandisco.com>wrote:

> In theory, we could end up shooting ourselves and our users in the
> feet by scuttling every RC between tag and release as issues become
> known. That's obviously a bit absurd, but it's worth asking where we
> draw that line?
>

This is my problem too. During the RC cycles we are always so sensitive to
these bugs, as if we are going to have a perfect release. We all know we
could find issues in our tracker that are just as bad as these we have been
discussing and we also know that once we release the software we do not
treat these bugs with the same urgency. We try to react relatively quickly
to bugs that could cause DoS or other exploits, as well as dataloss bugs but
those are all pretty rare and not what we are talking about here. For
normal bugs if this nature they would not show up in a fix release until
enough similar fixes have been nominated and backported to warrant a new
release.

I am also fine with a re-roll though I would like to see us clear STATUS if
we do. Meaning, let's remove the items that are not going to be in 1.7.x
and get the votes for the rest. Otherwise, why not go with the RC we have
(which already has the required votes for release).

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/