Goals for 4.0: Stability and Reliability

Created by: riyad

I think we should focus on stability, reliability and lessening the pain for administrators of GitLab. IMHO the following points should all be addressed before releasing 4.0 (delaying the release if necessary). Any PR/enhancement that is not aimed towards one of those goals should be postponed for the next release. Any issue/PR that needs to be closed before release should be assigned to the 4.0 milestone.

Information/Diagnosis

• :no_entry::sweat: Create a proper about page (#1993 (closed))
• a rake task that gathers basic information (GitLab version, Gitolite version, distro, etc.) for copy and paste to issues (#2194)
• make gitlab:app:status task more useful, checking a lot more that now (e.g. are users in the right group, dir/file users/groups set correctly, dir/file permissions set correctly, Resque working, mailer working, cloning over http(s) working, ...) (#2004 (closed))
• for all checks offer instructions to fix them (#2266)

Platform

• make all tests work reliably
• make ProstgreSQL test work again
• :no_entry::sweat: fix UI on IE (e.g. #1842 (closed), #2073 (closed))
• fix Resque integration (#2021 (closed))

Data integrity

• revise all rake tasks to ask the user before irreversably changing DB/repos
• fix all current bugs for backup/restore and make it more reliable
• fix all open data loss bugs (e.g. #1621 (closed))

Documentation

• Revise all installation docs
• Revise/cleanup Wiki
• Revise Issue Submission Guide
• Revise Contribution Guide

Created by: dzaporozhets

I'll work on fixing and finish namespace stuff. Also I hope IE UI fixed by commit f2a76228

Who can take postgres support?

It will be cool if everyone take some part and leave a note

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T12:36:04 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T12:36:04 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

Also i think #2149 is related to 4.0

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T12:47:53 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T12:47:53 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: riyad

@randx Just assign everything related (new/old) to the 4.0 milestone to track them.

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T13:04:41 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T13:04:41 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: riyad

I'll see if I can tackle some rake tasks and the docs.

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T13:03:54 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T13:03:54 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

Also do we really need to support IE? We build app not for housewives.

Demo site analytics:

1. Chrome 50,94 %
2. Safari 22,97 %
3. Firefox 21,82 %
4. Opera 1,81 %
5. Internet Explorer 1,67 %

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T13:32:09 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T13:32:09 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: riyad

You are right, but it shouldn't be "completely" broken, especially not IE 10 (maybe even 9).

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T13:36:35 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T13:36:35 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: moregeek

for your info: I'm trying to fix the hole tickets regarding the backup stuff and write the documentation howto use it...

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T16:53:14 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T16:53:14 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: riyad

@moregeek cool :)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T17:00:14 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T17:00:14 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: koenpunt

I'll be reviewing submitted issues to see if there still relevant/up to date (like #1917 (closed) is not relevant anymore because sqlite support is removed, right?)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T22:06:36 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T22:06:36 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: riyad

@koenpunt yes, thank you.

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T22:08:45 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-03T22:08:45 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

Also it will be cool to fix #2021 (closed)

By Administrator on 2012-12-04T07:48:18 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-04T07:48:18 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: koenpunt

What happened to 'delaying the release if necessary`?

By Administrator on 2012-12-20T16:52:17 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-20T16:52:17 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

@koenpunt please provide a reason to delay :)

By Administrator on 2012-12-20T17:47:32 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-20T17:47:32 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: koenpunt

I'm talking about all the to milestone-v4.0 assigned issues. They are now just passed along to the next version but is this good? I think there should be a better, more clear way of how the versioning goes. So define targets upfront, with maybe some occasional issue squeezed in, and don't release before they are done, and if this means that there is can't be a release on every 22th of the month, so be it. What is the value of a forced monthly release anyway? Maybe following the guidelines of Semantic Versioning could also make things clearer.

Anyway, currently the version numbers could just be dates, because they don't say nothing about the state of the software.

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T01:11:20 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T01:11:20 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

@koenpunt All critical issues are fixed. I dont think we should delay release to fix all of them. Also dont forget that a lot of issues can be done or not depend on contribution. So its hard to squeeze them. And we complete major goals for this release i think. I like the way ubuntu releases with fixed schedule.

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T07:06:17 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T07:06:17 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

I will test this one #2175 and merge if ok. Also I will fix tests. Then rc2 and testing.

@Riyad can you please handle an API and remove project code from docs?

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T10:49:02 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T10:49:02 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

tests are fixed

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T12:04:19 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T12:04:19 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: koenpunt

Ok, well its a matter of preference then? Anyway, thanks for explaining your reasons :) Keep up the good work!

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T12:06:39 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T12:06:39 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

@koenpunt yeap, its a matter of preference. Thanks for understanding

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T12:15:06 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T12:15:06 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: riyad

@randx what do you mean with "remove project code from docs"?

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T15:42:29 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T15:42:29 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

@Riyad Like this one https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/lib/api/projects.rb#L30

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T15:54:05 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-21T15:54:05 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

created 4-0-stable branch( https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/tree/4-0-stable). I am going to keep a stable branch for each release in order to provide critical fixes while master goes forward

By Administrator on 2012-12-22T14:44:06 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-22T14:44:06 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: riyad

@randx good idea

By Administrator on 2012-12-22T14:46:45 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-22T14:46:45 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: moregeek

#2337

By Administrator on 2012-12-22T23:16:02 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-22T23:16:02 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

almost done with release. Will tag a v4.0.0 in 8 hours. Need to sleep :)

By Administrator on 2012-12-22T23:20:33 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-22T23:20:33 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: riyad

I'm working on a solution for " revise all rake tasks to ask the user before irreversably changing DB/repos".

By Administrator on 2012-12-22T23:37:37 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-22T23:37:37 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

Just pushed a blog post http://blog.gitlabhq.com/gitlab-4-release/

Congrats.

@Riyad thank you. You helped me a lot with this release. Respect!

By Administrator on 2012-12-23T13:14:29 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-23T13:14:29 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: riyad

@randx I also want to thank you for your great patience and reviews of my sometimes hastily written code. Congrats for the release! :D

By Administrator on 2012-12-23T19:15:01 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-23T19:15:01 (imported from GitLab)

Created by: dzaporozhets

@Riyad thanks :) Closing this one

By Administrator on 2012-12-24T14:57:29 (imported from GitLab project)

By Administrator on 2012-12-24T14:57:29 (imported from GitLab)