I think we're a go for this LxQt alpha. Just gotta polish up release notes/announcement and push it.
On 30 January 2015 at 10:41, Chris Tanner <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with this. > > Chris > > On 30/01/15 10:12, Ben Bullard wrote: >> >> Yes, Go, let's release what we have and continue work. >> Ben Bullard >> ben79 >> -------------------- >> OpenMandriva-QA Team >> >> On 01/30/2015 07:10 AM, Colin Close wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> It's a difficult one after all it does boot and you can install it. >>> Failed bootloader installations are due to missing boot bios partitions in >>> MBR mode and it is possible fix either by creating the partition at install >>> time or installing grub manually using blocklists this requires the --force >>> option on the grub command line. I have already written a piece detailing >>> the issues on the WIKI. The rest is pretty much usable the main issue being >>> a broken rpmdrake and samba. Samba is easily fixed (missing samba directory >>> in /run) and if we do a final spin that is easily fixed. >>> urpmi works fine and I have already put stuff in the release notes about >>> the broken rpmdrake. Though the broken mdkapplet is a pain. I'm in favour of >>> release but I do think we need get some fixes out for the more major issues >>> asap. We should also point out that KDE4 is available in the repos and is >>> working should people wish to install it. >>> The 2015 release represents a huge amount of work ~(moving to clang and >>> major updates swcripting laguages) it's time we put out something to show >>> that we are making progress. I'm giving it a Go. >>> >>> >>> >>> Colin Close >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Robert Xu <[email protected]> >>> To: Cooker OpenMandriva <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Fri, Jan 30, 2015 6:58 am >>> Subject: Re: [OM Cooker] Calling it Pre-Alpha (Was: Re: [om-qa] Testing >>> alpha ISO 9036) >>> >>> >>> Personally, I think it's good enough for a go this round, as long as we >>> emphasize that a KDE5 Alpha will come soon. >>> Not everything has to work. We still have to flesh out the barriers >>> between alpha/beta/rc, and we're just getting to the point where we can >>> safely determine what constitutes what based on manpower. >>> But your thoughts? Note that once things start working, they shouldn't >>> regress. UEFI wasn't working before, so it's reasonable to have it still >>> malfunctioning this round. >>> On 29 Jan 2015 20:22, "Ben Bullard" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Was there a Go/Nogo determination? If so I missed it. >>> >>> Ben Bullard >>> ben79 >>> -------------------- >>> OpenMandriva-QA Team >>> >>> >>> On 01/29/2015 06:07 PM, Tomasz Gajc wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> As you may not have follow TC meetings we decided to go with LXQt >>> with alpha, because kde4 is well known and it would give bad >>> impressions that we are lazy, second KF5 is not yet ready even as >>> alpha, other desktops based on wayland are way to experimental. >>> >>> LXQt alpha was about to show off great work done on clang switch, >>> but now this is lost. >>> >>> I asked it few times to create some basic QA procedure for testing >>> ISO, upgrade from previous releases done weekly, and it never fleshed out. >>> Mostly this looks like some kind of rush because I have to ping on ML >>> about to test iso and get some feedback. Robert I suggest to you to >>> start working on QA procedure of testing, because current situation >>> is highly unprofessional. >>> >>> My frustration has nothing to do here, because I used to this over >>> last 3 three releases. What really concerns me is that we on Fosdem >>> will have noting to offer to visitors. >>> >>> What I should say to visitors who will notice our banner that we >>> are 100% clang, and they asked for iso? >>> There are no usb sticks to give away, so idea was to give QR >>> code to sf.net alpha release. >>> >>> Speaking of manpower, I bet you have friends who are interested in Linux, >>> ask them maybe this will help to get new people on board. >>> >>> Wysłano z Samsung Grand Neo Orange Polska >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OM-Cooker mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OM-Cooker mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OM-Cooker mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OM-Cooker mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OM-Cooker mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org > > > _______________________________________________ > OM-Cooker mailing list > [email protected] > http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org -- cheers, Robert :: github.com/robxu9 _______________________________________________ OM-Cooker mailing list [email protected] http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org
