On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:08:54AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > After the final upload of the kernel last week, I have again started > preparations for RC2. Since then all kernel udebs have been updated and > uploaded and there has also been a final upload of all other components > for translation updates and pending changes. Yesterday we have started > migrating udebs to testing.
> We still need several udebs to migrate to testing before D-I can be built > and uploaded. These last migrations should happen over the next 4 or 5 > days. Unless I hear differently from the RMs, this is the final chance > for packages that produce udebs to migrate to testing, especially for > those that are included in the D-I initrds. <looks over the status of the alpha port> Yep, ok by me! ;) > !! Because of this I also qequest the RMs to _always_ wait for my ack > !! before hinting a package that produces udebs. Ack, for my part. > Schedule > ======== > I can see the D-I RC2 release happening with something like the following > schedule (all in March), assuming no major bugs are discovered: > 4- 8: Wait for all udebs to migrate > 9/10: Build and upload debian-installer RC2 > 10-12: Do the build and BYHAND dance > 12/13: Switch CD-builds to using RC2 and switch dailies to etch_d-i > 13 : Make sure fixes for pending issues have made it to Etch > 13-18: Testing of images other than full CDs > 14/15: Full CD builds > 16-18: Testing of full CD images > 19 : Release RC2 OOI, are any of these dates fixed by calendar considerations? E.g., even if we get all the udebs in tomorrow, the debian-installer upload won't happen until the 9th because that's the first chance anyone will have? I'm sure the release/ftp teams will happily do whatever possible to move things forward ahead of schedule, even if it's just to give you more slack elsewhere in the schedule. <snip> > If someone feels this is a bad idea, please speak up :-) Sounds good to me. It's nice to see we're getting close! -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
