FYI ----- Forwarded message from Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:51:50 +0200 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL > PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL > PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dafydd Harries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: (forw) Debian release update, Debian Installer > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i > > For those of you who don't read -devel-announce. Others may easily > junk that mail. > > This forwarded mail is not all about Debian Installer but several > parts are....so I figured out you would need this information. > > As you will see below, the timelines for d-i releases are getting more > precise, so you all have more precise informations for scheduling your > own translation work. > > Don't forget to forward this to other translators of your team (if > you're not a "single" translator, of course!). > > ----- Forwarded message from Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:40:22 +0100 > From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org > Subject: Release update > X-Mailing-List: <debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org> > > It's been a little longer than it should have been since the last one. > Sorry. This is a not-terribly-formal update to get some news out despite > the members of the release team being somewhat snowed under with other > things at the moment. > > So, once again, where are we? > > debian-installer beta3 was released on 15 March as planned, and seems to > be holding up fairly well. It was still short of some architectures, > though: namely arm, hppa, mipsel, powerpc, and s390. Development on all > of these is continuing, and we should have a beta3 update soon to add a > couple of those missing architectures and fix up some other errata. The > plan from now on is to release d-i betas at roughly monthly intervals, > so expecting beta4 in the second half of April, with beta5 being the one > we aim to release as stable after a further month or so of testing. > > If you have some spare time and want to help Debian release, working on > debian-installer should be your number one priority. Without an > installer, we don't release; architectures without a working d-i won't > be candidates for releasing. For myself, I found it surprisingly easy to > get started with the daily netinst images and a batch of CD-Rs until I > figured out how to build my own netboot images. Go for it. > > We want to freeze for as short a time as possible. Long freezes are a > serious impediment (those who remember the potato freeze will know what > I mean), and cause no little confusion, so we'll only freeze completely > once the d-i schedule for a stable release is absolutely clear. However, > we do need to stop base system churn causing problems for d-i. To that > end: > > * As of now, no new packages will be added to the base system. This > means that packages in the base system *must not* change their > package relationships. > > * Large changes to the base system must be cleared with the release > team and the d-i team before being uploaded to unstable. > > * Changes to the base system should avoid regressing translations. > > * Where possible, avoid new major upstream versions of other packages. > If in any doubt about whether an upgrade is appropriate, contact the > release team. > > Elsewhere, please keep on fixing RC bugs, particularly in packages that > are important enough that removal isn't an option. > http://bugs.qa.debian.org/ shows some of these. > > Less important packages with unfixed RC bugs are very likely to be > removed. > > > Let's have a quick timeline. Since d-i is the main blocker, we'll lay it > out to correspond with its milestones. > > By d-i beta4 (fourth week of April): > > * The installer should work fairly reliably on all release candidate > architectures (which allows plenty of time to test all of them). > We've stopped base system dependency churn, so it should be able to > stay working, unlike earlier betas. > > * If there are architectures still not working at all by this point, > we'll have to drop some. Anything that didn't release with beta3 > should be getting concerned about this (particularly hppa, mipsel, > and s390), so, if you own such a box, please try out d-i and fix any > bugs you find. > > * All changes to the base system should be complete, barring perhaps a > few tweaks critical for d-i. > > * All major changes to the rest of the distribution should be > complete. > > * Major changes to the rest of the distribution should not happen > after beta4 is released, particularly including significant > dependency rearrangements that might affect testing. > > d-i beta5 (fourth week of May): > > * The installer should work well on all release candidate > architectures, and should be almost fully debugged. > > * Once we've had enough installation reports to know that this beta is > OK, we'll start the formal freeze. Any absolutely necessary changes > are likely to take place via testing-proposed-updates. > > * The security team will have a couple of weeks after beta5 to catch > up with security advisories. > > If necessary, d-i final: > > * Minor and necessary changes from d-i beta5. > > * Release sarge after a couple of days of final testing. > > > There we have it. Now let's make it work. :-) > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian Release Assistant, on behalf of the release team > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Nikolai Prokoschenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
