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[Didier Roche <didrocks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hey everyone.


As most of you may know from the announce and slides that Alexander 
posted on the ubuntu phone mailing list[1] last week, we are changing 
the release process for our upstream landing. This is a step towards the 
CI Airline vision which was discussed at vUDS.


We called it "CI Train" because it's going to bring us some advantages 
of the final vision (self-service checkin, semi-isolated environments, 
availability for upstreams to do their landing themselves), but it won't 
fully fly yet. ;) This new program still ensure that the ubuntu 
distribution rules are respected and while the system gives more 
autonomy in their landing, there is still the same checks and security 
than with daily release, meaning that this doesn't give indirect upload 
rights if you don't have them. However, we'll have some gains like Core 
Developers will be able to do the publication to ubuntu themselves now.


Since beginning of this year we worked tirelessly to get the code and 
infra in shape and did a successful pre-pilot of the process and "raw" 
tools with Sébastien last week. With his feedback we have been able to 
eliminate initial rough edges and improve the tooling to be even more 
convenient. With that, we feel comfortable to go ahead and will start 
rolling out the new landing process to all teams iteratively in waves - 
with first wave starting as early as next week on Tuesday. We're happy 
to collect any feedback on how to smoothen even more that process.


As per Alexander's proposal, dedicated landers in each team have been 
identified and will be trained to use the new system so that they become 
able to drive and do the landings of their components in a more 
self-service manner. Some components, when across different landings, 
will be co-shared of course. Those refinements and the list of people 
being able to land will evolve as we go.


You can find the current timeline and waves with dates on when we plan 
to move teams to the new process over in a spreadsheet [2]. Remember 
that dates might change and your ramp up might get delayed as we find 
issues as we go. However, once it is your teams turn we will go ahead and:

- disabling the upstream merger (as trunk means "shipped in distro")

- disabling daily release


Meaning: from then on, you will use the new landing process that folds 
the landing into your MP process.


We're certain a lot of you are looking forward to move to this new 
process, we're contacting directly with more instructions the landers as 
we move forward this program. Feel free to ask if you have any question.


Let's give more control over our CI process in upstream's hand while 
keeping the whole integration quality bar high!


Cheers,

Didier

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg05776.html

[2] 
https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au6idq7TkpUUdC05a2ZQSmgwU2NFYnJQOE9qMDRYa3c#gid=0

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