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Check for stable

There are two opportunities to declare a stable each week. The first occurs with Thursday daily cumulative build, the second with Friday's weekly build. We check Thursday's build and if it there are problems which might prevent a stable, we try and address them with the hope that the weekly cumulative might be "stable".

These build constitute the stable candidates. The criteria for a stable are:

1.: Must be a cumulative
2.: All aips unit tests should pass. Tests may fail but the failure must be understood and considered to be minor (i.e. similar to tDirectory failure on linux with NFS mounts).
3.: assay().trytests() runs without failure.
4.: dishlongtests() runs without failure.
5.: no obvious failures in loading the help atoms

So what does this entail?

1.

Examine build logs for glaring problems.

2.

Look at the unit tests

(a): linux_gnu
(b): sun4sol_gnu
(c): sun4sol_ntv

3.

Run assay

(a): linux_gnu
(b): sun4sol_gnu
(c): sun4sol_ntv

If the build is "stable", then as aips2adm on tarzan

1.

Send an email to aips2-naug aips2-aoc warning of the impending build

Greetings,

Build xx.yyy has met the stable criteria.  We will begin building the new stable @hhmm MT.
Please use weekly until the new stable build has completed.

aips2mgr

2.

as aips2adm;

cd /export/aips++/scripts; sh ./do\_blessing xx.yyy

This scripts marks xx.yyy as stable; inhales the stable into /aips++/stable; and begins the stable build for linux and solaris. The local sgi stable build is triggered by it's own cron job.

3.

Once the stable build completes, as aips2mgr on tarzan;

cd; cd scripts; ./updatestables.sh

This will update the stable builds area on /home/tarzan5 making binaries available to users via aupdate.

4.

Send an email to aips2-sitemgr

Greetings,

Build xx.yyy has been declared stable.  Please update your stable releases.

aips2mgr

It's best to declared a stable no later than Monday afternoon, so remote sites can inhale the latest stable Monday evening.

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