Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

[Frans Pop]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 13:28, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 October 2006 04:35, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > The daily images directory  > builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/> is empty and seems to have
> > been that way since October 9th.
>
> Yes, unfortunately there are problems syncing new images from the
> machine that builds new images to the server from where they can be
> downloaded.

Images are available now!


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Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

[Frans Pop]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 04:35, Rick Thomas wrote:
> The daily images directory  builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/> is empty and seems to have
> been that way since October 9th.

Yes, unfortunately there are problems syncing new images from the machine 
that builds new images to the server from where they can be downloaded.

I had hoped it would be fixed this morning, but it's not.
This is being worked on.

Cheers,
FJP


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Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

[Holger Wansing]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:35:48 -0400 Rick Thomas wrote:
> Hmmm...
> 
> The daily images directory  builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/> is empty and seems to have  
> been that way since October 9th.

Problem is not only for powerpc, but for all architectures.
No netinst and businesscard images.
But there were no errors on build (except for mipsel),
according to http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/build-logs.html

Is this worked on?



Holger

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Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Monday 16 October 2006 18:23, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > When do you wish me to update localechooser (which may include
> > de-activated languages)?
> 
> We can do that at the last moment. I'd suggest waiting until the end of 


So, October 23rd I guess.

I need this to have a sure deadline for a last update to iso-codes
(whose translations are used to build localechooser) which I need to
coordinate with Tobias Toedter (the main maintainer of iso-codes who's
not a DD and needs me, or Alastair, to upload it when ready).



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Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

[Rick Thomas]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Frans Pop wrote:


Please start testing the installer for all architectures NOW

All udebs with functional changes have now been uploaded, so this  
is an

excellent time to test different architectures using *daily* images!



Hmmm...

The daily images directory  is empty and seems to have  
been that way since October 9th.


Rick


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Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

[Frans Pop]

On Monday 16 October 2006 18:23, Christian Perrier wrote:
> When do you wish me to update localechooser (which may include
> de-activated languages)?

We can do that at the last moment. I'd suggest waiting until the end of 
the string freeze and then make final decision on which translations 
should be deactivated.

Just as a general note for others: the deactivation is only for the 
official Etch release; the currently too incomplete/outdated translations 
will likely be activated again for post-Etch daily images after the 
release.


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Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

[Christian Perrier]

> FINAL UPLOAD
> 
> 22Oct  End of string freeze; full freeze for udebs
> 23Oct  Upload all udebs with translation updates or pending changes
> 25/26 Oct  Most udebs should have migrated to testing


When do you wish me to update localechooser (which may include
de-activated languages)?


The fix re-implementing /etc/environment has been successfully tested
today and it works. Opening a gdm session on the installed system
gives a localized environment.




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D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

[Frans Pop]

Things are finally starting to come together for RC1.
- We've found a good work-around for the bug in g-i where selected lines
  in multi-select lists would not be shown. We need new versions of
  some gtk packages for that, but these have now been uploaded.
  Thanks especially to Loïc Minier for his fast packaging work!
- The last important open TODO items were done during the past week:
  - 2.6 floppy support for i386
  - partman-auto-raid (only through preseeding)

We currently still have some blocking bugs:
- regression in the progress bar in the newt frontend (#391676)
- incorrect display for CJK languages (newt/slang: #392942/392987)
- keyboard support on mips SGI Indigo2 (#382983)
- floppies too big for powerpc (should be possible to resolve using
  new infrastructure by Sylvain Ferriol)

The release preparation page on the wiki [1] is mostly up-to-date with 
regards to issues and TODO items before the release.
The page also lists the changes implemented since Beta 3 which will be 
used as basis for the release notes; let me know if you miss items.


Soft freeze for commits
===
We should now stop making structural changes in the installer, but bug 
fixing is still possible. If you have doubts if a commit is OK, please 
contact me.
Also, please contact me before uploading if you have any doubts.


Please start testing the installer for all architectures NOW

All udebs with functional changes have now been uploaded, so this is an 
excellent time to test different architectures using *daily* images!

We can now still make changes. Please don't wait until the last moment to 
test and find out there are architecture specific issues.


Release planning

The schedule was becoming too complex as there are two sets of migrations 
to testing: an initial one for current state and a final one with fixes 
and translation updates. I have therefore split it into two separate and 
partially overlapping schedules.
It is also somewhat optimistic, so some slippage is likely. If there is 
slippage, is is likely to be a full week. If we switch to 2.6.18 before 
RC1, that will also likely cause a weeks delay.

I have not planned very long periods for testing. I'd rather use RC1 
itself for extensive testing and fix remaining issues in RC2.

INITIAL UPLOAD
--
NowString freeze; soft freeze for commits, bug fixing OK
16Oct  Start migrating current udebs to testing
16-22 Oct  Architecture tests based on daily images; fix where needed !!!
20/21 Oct  First upload of debian-installer
21/22 Oct  Implement necessary changes in debian-cd
25Oct  Weekly full CD build for new installer
26-29 Oct  Testing and fixes for full CDs

FINAL UPLOAD

22Oct  End of string freeze; full freeze for udebs
23Oct  Upload all udebs with translation updates or pending changes
25/26 Oct  Most udebs should have migrated to testing
26Oct  Final build and upload of d-i
27Oct  Switch daily links to etch_d-i
27-30 Oct  Final testing using daily images
30Oct  Weekly full CD build
 1- 4 Nov  Further testing
 1- 4 Nov  Preparation of release notes, errata, etc.
 5Nov  Migration of d-i to testing
 3/ 4 Nov  CD builds
 5Nov  Release

P.S. I have accepted an invitation to participate in a workshop to develop 
a customized installer/distribution in Bhutan (thanks to Christian).
I will be gone from 5-22 November, but will still be able to work on 
release issues part-time while there.

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/EtchRC1Prep


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