Postmortem and lessons learned for Linaro's release 2012.03

https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1203/Release/Review

Highlights and Key Successes ============================

The 12.03 release saw the debut of the refurbished Linaro Website with a new content management system that makes creating user content much easier and faster.

Development continues to hit deliverable targets with the teams continuing to generate build for platform LEBs and working groups. Linux Linaro under the Ubuntu Developer Platform premiered and will become the baseline on which deliveries will be made. The big.LITTLE Switcher project has launched and is going well with Platform enablement and some Test runs/automation in place.

Pre-built release images for the Android and Ubuntu LEBs are currenly available with each of the Linaro monthly releases; however, new with the Linaro 12.03 release is that now developers can get daily pre-builds of the Ubuntu LEB which will be based on the current release of Ubuntu. Pre-built images can be found at snapshots.linaro.org.

Postmortem and Lessons Learned ==============================

On the heels of a very short release cycle came one of the longest release cycles. Many more blueprints and effort came out of the longer cycle. The length of the cycle allowed team members to focus and increase their productivity.

Some issues were highlighted that need to be addressed. Jenkins scripting was offline for a week affecting CI jobs during release week. LAVA continues to have some instabilities. There needs to be some sort of backup or redundancy for Jenkins scripts so that builds are not offline for an extended period. Testing should not solely rely on LAVA. In the event of LAVA issues, other testing methods should be employed.