Thanks for clarifying, Simon. Have a wonderful New Year celebration, everyone.
On Dec 30, 2016 8:31 PM, "Simon Quigley" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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