[db-wg] problems observed for - Re: Release 1.88 deployed to RC

Hi Tim, dear colleagues,

  > Dear working group,
  > 
  > We have released whois version 1.88 to the Release Candidate (RC)
  > environment. We plan to deploy this version to production on Monday 10
  > October.

did anyone else ALSO observe and report problems from testing with the 
release candidate?
We reported problems and added some related questions.
The ticket number is NCC#2016100974 and after 24 hours we have not 
received any response and the ticket system does not document any NCC
activety.

With no response on reported problems I have to conclude that unresolved
issues with 1.88 are known and deployment has to be postponed.

We would have preferred to do the testing earlier - but as far as I know
there has been no advance information for 1.88 scheduling.
The release note page was showing TBD in all fields for 1.88
days after RC deployment at least until Monday Oct 3rd (actually
seems the update only happened Tuesday - potentially due to a comment
I posted over the weekend)
I previously pointed out that advance notice of rough schedule 
should be given in order to allow interested user parties to anticipate
related activeties (such as testing) in their own (potentially tight)
schedules - I think that argument contributed to including a field
for planned RC deployment date on the release note/overview page.
With surprise notice of RC availability on Thursday afternoon
during turn of the month business activety peak days (and for our
team a long weekend extending to Monday) did not offer a serious chance
for early testing.

Looking forward to responses on the reported problems and questions
(i.e actual handling of the open ticket), and public announcement
of rescheduled deployment taking into account resolution of open
issues and sufficient time to assess problems/resolution.

Best regards,
  Ruediger


Ruediger Volk

Deutsche Telekom AG -- Internet Backbone Engineering

E-Mail:  rv at NIC.DTAG.DE