[racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.3.6

From: Ryan Culpepper (ryanc at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 24 23:00:30 EDT 2013

Those 3 commits (the fixes for TR tests) are already in the release 
branch and will be in the next release candidate build.

Ryan


On 07/24/2013 10:55 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> If we just take the latter 3 commits that Vincent mentioned, it should
> fix the (serial) tests. Those are just TR test fixes, and can't break
> anything else.
>
> Sam
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> I don't think we should take that commit. Is it possible to get a version of
>> the TR tests that either don't run in parallel or run without passing
>> keywords across place channels?
>>
>> Robby
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I will say that I'm not 100% happy with just assuming that TR works in
>>> the absence of a clean test run.  Is there a reason not to include
>>> these fixes?
>>>
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Robby Findler
>>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Robby
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The problems I've observed were only with the tests.
>>>>>
>>>>> The first problem I reported was caused by a bug/limitation in places,
>>>>> which was fixed by 733907474190da499a1782b230086170c5b87643. It was
>>>>> preventing the TR test suite from running properly.
>>>>>
>>>>> The others were bugs in the TR tests, not in TR itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> TR itself should be fine for the release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Vincent
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:03:08 -0500,
>>>>> Robby Findler wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>>>>>> Vincent: can you clarify what the status of TR & the release is,
>>>>>> please?
>>>>>> Are there problems only with tests, or were there problems elsewhere
>>>>>> too?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Robby
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Vincent St-Amour
>>>>>> <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The TR tests still fail when using a single place.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The following commits should be included in the release:
>>>>>>> 069ff59a4bd6a988a5670c7e4dd38c1dbbe12ec0
>>>>>>> 0e7940ab4943600e6f5c8f13ce7ee13e8af9a8f5
>>>>>>> ab5075bc762356f86bb7dfd34dac8d24ada1a140
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Vincent
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:49:20 -0400,
>>>>>>> Vincent St-Amour wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> At Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:13:28 -0400,
>>>>>>>> Ryan Culpepper wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Checklist items for the v5.3.6 release
>>>>>>>>>     (using the v5.3.5.900 release candidate build)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Search for your name to find relevant items, reply when you
>>>>>>>>> finish
>>>>>>>>> an
>>>>>>>>> item (please indicate which item/s is/are done).  Also, if you
>>>>>>>>> have any
>>>>>>>>> commits that should have been picked, make sure that the
>>>>>>>>> changes
>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>> in.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Important: new builds are created without announcement, usually
>>>>>>> whenever
>>>>>>>>> I pick a few commits.  If you need to commit changes, please
>>>>>>>>> make
>>>>>>>>> sure
>>>>>>>>> you tell me to pick it into the release branch.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --> Release candidates are at
>>>>>>>>> -->   http://pre.racket-lang.org/release/installers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The "Linux/i386/Ubuntu Precise" installer is 64 bits, which is
>>>>>>>> wrong.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu>,
>>>>>>>>>      Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>
>>>>>>>>>     - Match Tests
>>>>>>>>>     - Typed Racket Tests
>>>>>>>>>     - Typed Racket Updates: update HISTORY
>>>>>>>>>     (updates should show v5.3.6 as the most current version;
>>>>>>>>> email
>>>>>>>>> me
>>>>>>>>>     to pick the changes when they're done, or tell me if there
>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>> no
>>>>>>> such
>>>>>>>>>     changes.)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I get the following error when runing the TR tests:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> place-channel-put: value not allowed in a message
>>>>>>>>    value: '#:methods
>>>>>>>>    ...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is 733907474190da499a1782b230086170c5b87643 missing from the
>>>>>>>> release?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now running the tests without places.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Vincent
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