Retrospective for March 2021 Releases

[adamfarley]

This will be a Slack call after the release, with at least a week of notice in the #Release Slack channel.

A bulleted list of all proposed agenda items in this issue (whether at the top or in a comment) will be created on the day of the call, with a list of actions added at the end.

Edit: The call will take place at 4pm GMT (11:00am Ontario, Canada) on Monday the 12th of April.

[adamfarley]

Actions from the last retrospective:

Adam Farley:

• Create template for future Retrospective issues. (PR)
• Raise TSC issue to discuss having a checklist for release actions. E.g. a checklist of checklists in a TSC template, or some manner of wiki. (Issue raised)
• Speak with Martijn about him raising an issue for "IBM RHEL 6 machine missing some pre-reqs for language tests." (To be discussed here.)
• Speak with Andreas about storing this info in an issue and encouraging folks to use it. (To be discussed here.)

Andrew Leonard:

• Raise issue to discuss JTHarness Test Output parameter lengthening. (Issue raised)
• Raise issue to cover actions needed for inc weekly tests when testing OpenJ9 milestones. (Issue raised)

[aahlenst]

adoptium/temurin-build#2524 needs to be addressed. Causes problems all the time. This time it's adoptium/installer#298. I usually get the suggestion to check for various name combinations which is just plain bad and does not address the other problems that exist apart from U yes/no.

[adamfarley]

Agenda:

• Go over actions from last retrospective
• Close previous retrospective's issue
• (aahlenst) Ensure that binaries have consistent file names adoptium/temurin-build#2524 needs to be addressed. Causes problems all the time. This time it's Deal with missing U in file names for 16 adoptium/installer#298. I usually get the suggestion to check for various name combinations which is just plain bad and does not address the other problems that exist apart from U yes/no.

[karianna]

Retro is done and issues raised so closing.