Hi there

A few questions--

a) Is the omission of the "Developers and Community Builds" links from
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ intentional?  This is a concern,
because these links contain the _only_ deliverables for certain
platform and filesystem combinations.  The wiki release page itself is
not easily findable without going to the wiki.

b) The release page on the wiki contains important information like
the list of known issues.  Shouldn't this page be linked from
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ or some other prominent location?  I
don't see how to get to it at present.  A visitor won't know that they
have to go to the wiki for this information.

c) The known issues list on the wiki release page doesn't seem include
all the issues reported during testing.  Will these get propagated, or
is it the responsibility of testers to add the relevant information to
the known issues list themselves?

d) For vexpress specifically, there is no link from the release pages
or downloads to the specific installation instructions applicable to
this board.  Even I find these difficult to find without bookmarking.
Because that information is very board-specific, I don't think it
needs to be included on
https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation
-- but can we at least have a link on there pointing to the
appropriate page?

Cheers
---Dave

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Fathi Boudra <fathi.bou...@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Linaro Team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.08.
>
> 11.08 is the Linaro’s third release delivered on the new monthly cadence.
> Once again, this release includes components delivered by all Working Groups,
> Landing Teams and Platform Teams, bringing the best of Linaro Technology
> integrated on top of Android and Ubuntu based images.
>
> In total this makes an impressive thirty components and two platform builds
> from all Linaro engineering teams in one shot. And again, most of this comes
> nicely integrated into Android and Ubuntu platform builds. This release made
> it again hard to select a handful of highlights from a list of roughly
> 80 deliverables that went into this release.
>
> However, if we had to choose we would like to emphasize the update of
> linux-linaro to the 3.0.3 stable kernel including the merge of 3.1-rc1 core 
> ARM
> updates, Linaro GCC 4.6 2011.08 release based on latest upstream version, and
> Linaro Cross Toolchain 2011.07 builds. In addition, the Android Team delivers
> the enablement of all of our primary boards, compiled with the Linaro 11.08
> toolchain release based on GCC 4.6 and running Android 2.3.5.
>
> We encourage everybody to use the 11.08 release. The download links for all
> images and components are available on our release page:
>
>  http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1108/Release
>
> See the detailed highlights of this release to get a better overview of what
> was done by the individual teams. The release details are linked from
> the "Details" column for each release artifact on the release information:
>
>  http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1108/Release#Release_Information
>
> Using the Android-based images
> ==============================
>
> The Android-based images come in three parts: system, userdata and boot.
> These need to be combined to form a complete Android install. For an
> explanation of how to do this please see:
>
>  http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/ImageInstallation
>
> If you are interested in getting the source and building these images
> yourself please see the following pages:
>
>  http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/GetSource
>  http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/BuildSource
>
> Using the Ubuntu-based images
> =============================
>
> The Ubuntu-based images consist of two parts. The first part is a hardware
> pack, which can be found under the hwpacks directory and contains hardware
> specific packages (such as the kernel and bootloader). The second part is
> the rootfs, which is combined with the hardware pack to create a complete
> image. For more information on how to create an image please see:
>
>  http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation
>
> Getting involved
> ================
>
> More information on Linaro can be found on our websites:
>
>  * Homepage: http://www.linaro.org
>  * Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org
>
> Also subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC
> channels to stay on top of Linaro developments:
>
>  * Announcements:
>   http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-announce
>  * Development:
>   http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
>  * IRC:
>   #linaro on irc.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net
>   #linaro-android irc.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net
>
> Known issues with this release
> ==============================
>
> For any errata issues, please see:
>
>  http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1108/Release#Known_Issues
>
> Bug reports for this release should be filed in Launchpad against the
> individual packages that are affected. If a suitable package cannot be
> identified, feel free to assign them to:
>
>  http://www.launchpad.net/linaro
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Fathi Boudra, on behalf of the Release Team
> Linaro Release Manager | Platform Project Manager
> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
>
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