Hi Below an update of the release goals I advocated and some thoughts on others.
> Release Goals > ------------- > As a first step towards establishing release goals for wheezy, we will be reviewing > each of the goals which we had for squeeze [RDO:SGoals] to see which have been achieved and which > may no longer be relevant for other reasons. > > If you are listed as the proponent for a goal in the above list, please feel free to > provide a status update on progress towards completing it and whether you believe it is > relevant for the wheezy cycle. You can also e-mail us to propose a new goal, including > a description of the goal and an indication of how progress on the issues may be tracked > (e.g. a pointer to a set of appropriate user-tagged bugs). # bootperformance Advocate: Petter Reinholdsen and Luk Claes State: confirmed Wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/BootPerformance The main part of this goal was achieved, though there are some possible improvements both regarding boot reliability and boot performance that could still be aimed for. Regarding reliability I'm doing some work regarding NFS, though one of the main outstanding issues is the race between availability of the network devices and the end of the network init script AFAICS. It would also not be a bad idea to have a discussion on whether the default init system should change to one that is more suitable to guarantee the reliability of the boot like upstart or systemd. Regarding boot performance there is quite some work done by Ubuntu in different packages, so maybe it would not be bad to have a look at how Ubuntu and Debian could get more in sync on that. # package quality Advocate: Holger Levsen and Luk Claes State: confirmed Wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/PackagesQuality This is a never ending goal of sustaining our packages quality by improving our tests and following up closely... so needless to say that I would still advocate this one. # remove obsolete libraries Advocate: Barry deFreese and Luk Claes State: confirmed Wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RemoveOldLibs This worked quite well and should continue so we can get rid of obsolete libraries IMHO. One of the main candidates are the old db libraries, though there are also still some old gnome libraries and without doubt others. > We're also after new goals! I know that expressions of interest in multiarch and > tdebs have already been indicated, but if you have something you would want to > see happen for Wheezy, please let us know. The release team itself will be > suggesting some as part of the review above. I'm definitely in favour of having multiarch finally happen! For the IPv6 and LFS legacy release goals I think it would be best if we would welcome massive (automatic?) tests to find all of the outstanding issues and get them fixed finally! I would welcome a review of essential, required and standard though I don't know if many would welcome such an initiative which could potentially have quite some impact without much visible gain. Anyway it's something which should happen in the beginning of the cycle (after a discussion with both the involved maintainers as well as the developers body at large) or not at all IMHO. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d936684.2050...@debian.org
