Re: Plone 4.2.6, 4.3.2 soft-released

On 09/11/2013 05:20 PM, Eric Steele wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Guido Stevens wrote:
>
>> My Travis builds are erroring because the unified installer is not
>> present on Launchpad yet.

> Yes. We're currently waiting on the Installers Team to finish up the
> installers. Expect those to be available sometime this week. 

I expected something like that, and appreciate the work involved.

> Going forward, is this going to cause a lot of issues? If so, I can hold
> off linking up the -latest aliases on dist.plone.org

While that sounds like an easy solution, and avoids continuous
integration going down for a week after each point release, it has some
downsides.

I'd expect the majority of those using test-4.x.cfg to be experienced
Plone devs running continuous integration setups. You want a new release
to hit their builds asap to detect any issues with either the new core
release, or with add-on compatibility, as soon as possible.

Delaying the -latest symlink delays this QA for a week and also might
create some confusion because of the inconsistency where -latest would
not point to the actual latest release for a while.

> <http://dist.plone.org> until the installers are available. The other
> option would be to begin providing a zip of the buildout cache so that
> relying on the installer isn't necessary.

I don't know how much work is involved in that, but it sounds like a
better option to me, for the reasons given above.


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