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Re: Shutdown of the Phone Boottest

 

Christian,

Any future plans for this would be up to the Phone product management.

Francis

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Christian Dywan <christian.dywan@xxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hey Francis,
>
> So what is the current plan for this? How are non-booting images going to
> be avoided? Last time I checked the build process still wasn't able to
> detect it because of the order of landing packages and a simple dependency
> change could easily result in an unusable image.
>
> ciao,
>     Christian
>
>
> On ma, joulu 21, 2015 at 8:16 , Francis Ginther <
> francis.ginther@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello developers,
>
> For several months, a ‘boottest’ was used as part of the proposed
> migration process to ensure that packages being promoted to the archive did
> not cause a regression in the ability to boot phone images [1]. This
> testing was shutdown on Sept 25, 2015 as the tests were not providing the
> desired benefit. This shutdown was discussed and approved by the Phone
> product management and the Foundations team.
>
> This email is an official notice that ‘boottest’ will no longer be
> maintained, and there are no plans to bring it back. The sources and known
> bugs are available in Launchpad [2] should another team desire to revive
> and maintain it.
>
> The wiki references [1] will be removed within the next week.
>
> [1] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ProposedMigration (see item number 4 of the
> migration criteria)
> [2] - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-touch-boottest
>
> Thanks,
> The UES CI Team
> --
> Francis Ginther
> Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering - Continuous Integration Team
>
>


-- 
Francis Ginther
Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering - Continuous Integration Team

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