DRAFT IN PROGRESS
ACS releases can be huge with many features, improvements and issues. For successful release management proactive monitoring is needed to inspect and correct course.
A good release dashboard provide necessary widgets for release management. JIRA supports many widgets types each widget is linked to a filter (named queries).
Tip: By deafult filters are private, in order for others to access them, they need to be shared with project 'CLOUDSTACK'. Sharing a filter with others require a privilege that can be received by creating a ticket with Apache INFRA
Some of the recommended widgets are:
Widget |
Query |
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Bugs created in last 7 days by Priority |
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Bugs resolved in last 7 days by Priority |
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Bugs closed in last 7 days by Priority |
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Bugs unresolved unassigned by Priority |
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Bugs unresolved total by Priority |
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Bugs unresolved unassigned by Components |
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Bugs unresolved blocker critical by Components |
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Bugs Total |
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Bugs Resolved Total |
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Bugs Closed Total |
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The best way to notify the assignees is by using the bulk edit option in JIRA and updating the comment with appropriate message. Weekly reminders as we get closer to release milestones also helps bringing attention and focus
Release branch is created from master soon after the feature freeze date for a specific release is passed.
Steps to create the branch are outlined below:
git checkout master
git pull origin master
^^ this will ensure you are on the latest commit for master
git checkout -b X.Y
^^ this creates a local X.Y branch for yourself
git push origin X.Y
Here X.Y is branch to be created like 4.3
Since ACS 4.2.0 release instead of putting a static list of known issues and fixed issues we put a link to a public JIRA filter for known and fixed issues in release notes.
Filter |
Description |
Query |
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Issues fixed in this release |
A filter that lists all the issues that were fixed in this release from the prior releases. |
project = CLOUDSTACK AND type = Bug AND affectedVersion in (PRIOR RELEASE , MAINTENANCE RELEASES) AND fixVersion = "X.Y.Z" AND resolution != "\"Unresolved\"" ORDER BY created DESC, priority DESC, key ASC |
Known issues in this release |
A filter that lists all the known issues from this release |
project = CLOUDSTACK AND type = Bug AND (affectedVersion = "X.Y.Z" or fixVersion = "X.Y.Z") AND resolution is EMPTY AND level = "Public" ORDER BY priority DESC, key ASC |