On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Martin Langhoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> The 11.3.0 cycle is coming to a close. Hopefully without distracting > too much from it, I wanted to circulate some brief notes on what > follows. > > The steering goals for 11.3.0 have been to have a good quality release > for deployments using XO-1 and XO-1.5, and a known-stable stack to > serve as scaffolding to the XO-1.75 efforts. We haven't finished > 11.3.0 yet but I think there is ample evidence that it is working. > > On the XO-1.75 front, we are clearly a little further from finished -- > our release candidates for XO-1.75 aren't really. But that's natural > with software changes riding on top of hardware changes. > > So our plan is to release 11.3.0 as planned; and open a second > deep-freeze bugfix window that will lead to 11.3.1 . During this > period we will accept > > - XO-1.75 platform improvements -- namely drivers and kernel fixes. > > - High importance regression bugs elsewhere in the stack, only after > careful triaging. After the 11.3.0 cycle, we don't expect any here. > > The timeframe for this bugfix window is still unclear. > > Query: Some of the 11.2.0 targeted languages (presumably the same in 11.3.0) are still a good way from completion. I would like to know if I should press for L10n of those specifically, as there is a reasonable chance we could pick up some coverage if the L10n whip is wielded judiciously. L10n commits will need to be checked for build-breakers (printf and terminal newlines are the common culprits), but otherwise is not generally going to introduce unexpected issues. cjl [1] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-February/031016.html en_US es ar pt pt_BR fr ht mn mr_IN am_ET km_KH ne_NP ur_PK rw ps fa_AF si de zh_CN
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