[gentoo-releng] 2004.1 propogation method

[gentoo-releng] 2004.1 propogation method

[Jeffrey Forman]

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Releng,

Just wanted to keep you all abreast of how we (infra) plan to release
2004.1 from the infrastructure side.

Corey Shields (cshields) and I will be testing out the 'bit flip' method
for this next release, it is the same method Redhat has used in their
numerous releases. The basic concept is all the files will be uploaded
to public mirrors, but with their world-readable perm set to 0
(effectively 700) so only the owner of the rsync/ftp/http process can
read it. At a certain time, in which we can decide anytime the day we
decide to realase, we "flip the bit" essentially, changing the files
from 700 -> 755, so everyone can read them. Only the permission is
changed via rsync, its immediate and no large multi-megabyte files are
transferred. Hence, 2004.1 is released. This will give our mirrors time
to get ready for the bandwidth hit. John and I came to the conclusion
that we wanted at least 72 hours to propogate before we flip the bit. I
would also like all the release media to be on one of the gentoo infra
boxes 12 hours before that, so we have it somewhere on a big pipe to
transfer at will. 

I'd like to put in a policy that we DO NOT under any circumstances post
press releaes on the various sites (distrowatch, osnews, slashdot,
cnn.com, www.g.o, etc) until the bit is flipped. Let's try and stay the
onslaught of people from .0 who came in wondering "wtf is my gentoo
2004.0?!"

RFC

thanks,
-jeff
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Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.1 propogation method

[John Davis]

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On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 17:06, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
> 
> I'd like to put in a policy that we DO NOT under any circumstances post
> press releaes on the various sites (distrowatch, osnews, slashdot,
> cnn.com, www.g.o, etc) until the bit is flipped. Let's try and stay the
> onslaught of people from .0 who came in wondering "wtf is my gentoo
> 2004.0?!"
> 
> RFC
> 
> thanks,
> -jeff

Jeff - 
That was my bad last time. I am the one that posts the press releases,
so this will not happen again :)

Cheers,
//zhen
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Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.1 propogation method

[Jason Huebel]

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Jeffrey Forman wrote:
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| to get ready for the bandwidth hit. John and I came to the conclusion
| that we wanted at least 72 hours to propogate before we flip the bit. I
| would also like all the release media to be on one of the gentoo infra
| boxes 12 hours before that, so we have it somewhere on a big pipe to
| transfer at will.
[snip]

So, we need to have everything done by April 24th to meet the 28th
release, correct?

Jason Huebel
Gentoo/amd64 Operational Lead
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Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.1 propogation method

[Jeffrey Forman]

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jason,

(ideally) yes. it should be "ready to be released" by the 24th. meaning
it should be uploaded to one of the infra boxes by then, so we can
generate md5's and make sure directory structure is all how it should
be. so that we can start pushing it out with our new bit-flipping
method.

-jeffrey

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 20:55, Jason Huebel wrote:
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> Jeffrey Forman wrote:
> [snip]
> | to get ready for the bandwidth hit. John and I came to the conclusion
> | that we wanted at least 72 hours to propogate before we flip the bit. I
> | would also like all the release media to be on one of the gentoo infra
> | boxes 12 hours before that, so we have it somewhere on a big pipe to
> | transfer at will.
> [snip]
> 
> So, we need to have everything done by April 24th to meet the 28th
> release, correct?
> 
> Jason Huebel
> Gentoo/amd64 Operational Lead
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Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.1 propogation method

[Jason Huebel]

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Jeffrey Forman wrote:
| jason,
|
| (ideally) yes. it should be "ready to be released" by the 24th. meaning
| it should be uploaded to one of the infra boxes by then, so we can
| generate md5's and make sure directory structure is all how it should
| be. so that we can start pushing it out with our new bit-flipping
| method.
|
| -jeffrey

OK, then I'll make the adjustments to our internal project timeline to
make up for those lost days... Thanks for the heads up...

Jason Huebel
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Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.1 propogation method

[John Davis]

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On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 23:12, Jason Huebel wrote:
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> Jeffrey Forman wrote:
> | jason,
> |
> | (ideally) yes. it should be "ready to be released" by the 24th. meaning
> | it should be uploaded to one of the infra boxes by then, so we can
> | generate md5's and make sure directory structure is all how it should
> | be. so that we can start pushing it out with our new bit-flipping
> | method.
> |
> | -jeffrey
> 
> OK, then I'll make the adjustments to our internal project timeline to
> make up for those lost days... Thanks for the heads up...
> 

Also - 
Make sure that you follow the schedule on the 2004.1 info page:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2004.1/releng/2004.1.xml

That is what we are following.

Cheers,
//zhen
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