[Mageia-sysadm] Who made the decision to start putting Mageia 2 on the mirrors before qa approved the isos?

[nicolas vigier]

On Tue, 22 May 2012, Thomas Backlund wrote:

> 22.05.2012 09:28, David W. Hodgins skrev:
> > A few hours ago, while trying to qa test the latest live cds, I ran
> > into a problem with gurpmi.addmedia hanging on the first boot into
> > a system installed from a live cd.
> > 
> > After waiting a few hours, I still can't complete testing of the
> > install from a live cd, as whichever mirror is being chosen, is
> > still not synced.
> > 
> > While I expect everything will work out once the mirrors finish
> > syncing, the syncing shouldn't have started before qa gave approval.
> > 
> 
> Well, the decision to start pushing release tree to the mirrors, is
> that it takes ~2 days for all mirrors to catch up, so we need to be
> out in time.
> 
> Now the problem was / is not the pre-mirroring, but the fact that api
> server was changed too fast....

Or that Mga::Mirror mirrors cache was not cleared so that only valid
mirrors are listed.

> 
> 
> > Yes I qa approved prior iso images, but once the decision to make
> > new iso images was made, the new iso images should have been qa
> > approved before the switch was thrown!
> > 
> 
> Well, the iso tree is not pushed yet as qa has not approved them yet,
> so nothing has changed in that respect.
> 
> And we can/will still respin isos if decided necessary.
> 
> > I have to get some sleep, so won't be able to finish qa testing the
> > latest live cds till after that.  Hopefully, whichever mirror is
> > being chosen will be synced by then.
> > 
> It probably will be...

It should already be the case now :
http://mirrors.mageia.org/api/mageia.2.x86_64.list

All mirrors listed by mirrorslist should have Mageia 2.

It was not the case during this night because Mga::Mirror didn't clear
its cache of valid Mageia 2 mirrors yet.