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Release critical policy changes for DB Patches

To: Danilo Šegan <danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:11:35 -0500
Cc: Launchpad Development List <launchpad-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Canonical Ltd.
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Hello everyone,

Danilo Šegan is our release manager for this cycle. Big thanks to him for 
volunteering!

After discussion with Tom today, we agreed on a couple of changes to the 
policy regarding release-critical changes containing DB patches.

The basic rule is: don't. But sometime, we have to. So here are the details:

 * On Mon/Tue: DB patches that don't affect the estimated roll-out time can be 
 considered.

 * On the release day: no DB patches unless data safety is at risk.

 * For the "re-roll": again no DB patches, unless data safety is at risk.

Also, we decided that the policy should be to abort the roll-out and 
reschedule if we encounter any problems that would put the schedule off by 
more than 30 minutes.

I've updated the wiki page with the above information.

Cheers


-- 
Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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