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[Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> if we use the numbers to infer if its stable vs. devel, please make a
>> big buffer (e.g. make all stable silos start with 5XX) so we can grow
>> silos without having to make the scheme more complicated.
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> Yeah, I was going to say, why not 1XX or something, 5XX would also be
> good. Then we don't paint ourselves in the corner with the numbering.
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> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I anticipated the least work on infrastructure side would be do
>> duplicate the spreadsheet and point that as the ubuntu-rtm target. Not
>> perfect, but as its not really a long lasting thing we are inventing
>> here
>
> Oh please, no. Then when we find a bug in the code, we have to fix it
> in two places. And claiming it will be short-lived doesn't make it ok,
> because these things always stick around longer than you anticipate.
>
> I don't expect it to be especially difficult to have a new column with
> some data validation so that the cells only accept either 'ubuntu' or
> 'ubuntu-rtm' and then you can pick them like a drop-down, and then
> that can be trivially referenced when assigning. There's no need to
> duplicate the entire spreadsheet for this.

OK, think its a valid point if its easy to expand our spreadsheet and
backend to cover both targets without duplicating infra.

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>>>  * Presumably the backend and the dashboard would both need to be
>>>    extended.  I'm not familiar with the details here and would welcome
>>>    commentary from those who are.
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>> Easiest might be to also duplicate the backend jenkins. It's already
>> charged afaik, so duplicating that for ubuntu-rtm might be easy.
>
> I'm not sure what charged means in the context of jenkins, but it
> shouldn't be hard to just change the few places where we hard-code
> 'ubuntu' into a variable that can either be 'ubuntu' or 'ubuntu-rtm'
> and reference that from the spreadsheet data.