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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <
lukasz.zemczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> As we have now officially branched for ubuntu-rtm, we would also like to
> announce that landing for RTM-targetted images is now officially open!
> This means that all landers can have their changes landed into
> ubuntu-rtm when they want it. We have enabled some features in the CI
> Train for this purpose last week, but only now the test run is over and
> everything that lands will stay in the archive.
>
> By default from now on anything that's landed in ubuntu will not be part
> of the RTM-targeted images. So make sure you get the changes you want to
> ubuntu-rtm.
> Please read on to get to know the process itself.
>
>
>  * How to land a package to ubuntu-rtm?
>
> First of all, you will need to have a separate branch for your RTM
> backports. The naming and location of this branch is all up to you. Some
> of the projects that participated in the testing landings last week used
> the naming scheme of lp:projectname/rtm-14.09 .
> Before releasing anything for ubuntu-rtm, make sure the same change is
> already released in Ubuntu current development series (e.g. utopic). We
> only accept cherry-picked changes from trunks. In other words: if
> something is to land in RTM it will require a double landing - one to
> ubuntu, then to ubuntu-rtm. Once that happens, fill in a landing with
> the new merge requests to the RTM branches in our CI Train spreadsheet
> and set the Target Distribution field to "ubuntu-rtm/14.09". The rest is
> the same as before, with the change being that the landing needs to be
> tested against ubuntu-rtm built images instead. Remember to double check
> that your RTM merges are targeting the right branches - i.e. the RTM
> branch created earlier.
>
> To summarize, the general process:
>  - Making sure an RTM branch (for this example let's use
> lp:foo/rtm-14.09) exists and corresponds to what is in ubuntu-rtm
>  - Creating a merge request of a feature/fix to ubuntu (target -> lp:foo)
>  - Driving a landing through CI Train of this merge/merges to ubuntu
> (target distribution -> ubuntu/utopic)
>  - Creating a branch with the same changes but based on lp:foo/rtm-14.09
>  - Creating a merge request of the feature/fix to ubuntu-rtm (target ->
> lp:foo/rtm-14.09)
>  - Driving a landing through CI Train of this merge/merges to ubuntu-rtm
> (target distribution -> ubuntu-rtm/14.09)
>  - Change, after possible additional testing, lands in RTM
>
> Currently ubuntu-rtm landings are also treated very safely, so most
> landings might require a QA sign-off before those can be published into
> the archive.
>
>
>  * Action items for now
>
> Since we have just finished the initial copy of packages to ubuntu-rtm,
> it might be the best time to create your RTM-targeted branches by
> branching off from current trunk. When doing this later you will have to
> make sure you only copy the branch history up until the revision that is
> actually present in the ubuntu-rtm pocket. This way you need to make
> sure that the RTM branches do not have any changes that are not in the
> RTM archive.
>
>
> Please do not hesitate and feel free to give us (trainguards) a ping on
> IRC (#ubuntu-release or #ubuntu-ci-eng) whenever in doubt.
>

What happens to automatic translation updates pushed by launchpad to trunk?
How are they supposed to make it to RTM?