[rdo-list] Reminder as CentOS 7.4 draws near with the upcoming Pike release

[David Moreau Simard]

I guess I forgot to mention... this email is also valid for supported
stable releases !

If there are any problems in Newton or Ocata, we also need to know :)

David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | OpenStack RDO

dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]


On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 2:42 PM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a friendly reminder that CentOS 7.4 is knocking at our doors at
> about the same time as the upcoming Pike release.
>
> Content from CentOS 7.4 will start trickling down to the CentOS
> Continuous Release (CR) [1] repositories soon.
> We need to be on the look out for changes that might have an impact on
> the delivery of RDO.
>
> The ci.centos.org environment provides nodes with the CR repository
> enabled by default in order to get some testing feedback.
> We've also enabled the CR repository for virtual (WeIRDO) workloads
> that are ran from ci.centos.org in order to get us more feedback.
>
> This should hopefully allow us to catch problems as they arise in
> order to fix them in time for the release.
> The release of CentOS 7.3 was not exactly exciting and we documented
> the different things that impacted us [2].
>
> I'll suggest we do the same thing for CentOS 7.4.
> If you see any issues that seem to stem from the release of 7.4,
> please document them on the following etherpad:
> https://review.rdoproject.org/etherpad/p/release-centos-7.4
>
> Thanks !
>
> [1]: https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR
> [2]: https://review.rdoproject.org/etherpad/p/release-centos-7.3
>
> David Moreau Simard
> Senior Software Engineer | OpenStack RDO
>
> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]