Hey guys, On 12/30/2016 01:41 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Hi folks, you might notice that we didn't have an Alpha 1 out today. > That was partly because our packages aren't published and ready to go, > and the other is that none of the other flavors were ready either.
(with the exception of Ubuntu Kylin, which wanted to participate but didn't step up to coordinate) > Or, perhaps they didn't want to do all that extra work. Because I've > never been involved in releasing before, I didn't realize that "The > community flavors that choose to release alpha milestones (and the > beta-1 milestone) are responsible for finding the resources to make > these milestones happen. In general, releases will not happen without > volunteers." Usually either someone from Lubuntu or Ubuntu MATE steps up, nobody seemed to do so this time. > The page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityMilestoneProcess says that > "tasks need to be performed by someone with shell access to the image > building machine or someone on the Ubuntu release team. I don't think there's someone who has access that isn't on the release team (or at the very minimum, Canonical's Ubuntu Foundations team). > * Final publishing > * Setting up the ISO tracker > * Handling blocks & unblocks" > > In addition, "Flavour release teams are responsible for ensuring their > images get rebuilds when required if a global rebuild is not > occurring" and "Collect any release note URLs from flavours that want > to provide them," "Make sure all flavours have their images marked as > ready before release day," "Prepare and send release announcement to > ubuntu-devel-announce with a cc to ubuntu-release, " and "Be > responsive on IRC." > > Some of us should sign up to do some of these jobs, none of which I > ever thought of! I've done this before myself, I've done it with someone before to make sure I have the process right, and I even taught someone else how. It's really not something a team of people does (at least in my experience), unless the person put on the signup sheet delegates. So I would discourage people from doing random things on that list before talking to the person signed up to do it. The release task signup page is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseTaskSignup Typically people put on this list are limited to release managers for flavors (I haven't really seen anyone else on there, and it's a "rule of thumb") so unfortunately it doesn't look like many people from here can do this. If you look at that page, I put my name down for Beta 1 and I plan on completing the milestone tasks on that date. Please let me know if you have any questions, and hopefully this clears up some confusion! :) -- Simon Quigley [email protected] tsimonq2 on freenode and OFTC 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4 -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
