> In our technical team call today we spent some time discussing how to > support distribution releases that are due to happen around the time of Yocto > 1.1. > > Yocto 1.1 is scheduled for release on October 6th[1], the same month > in which both Ubuntu and Fedora have new releases planned[2,3]. > OpenSUSE doesn't have a release scheduled until November 10th[4]. > > We should accommodate for these releases in our planning around 1.1 as > we need to ensure that Yocto 1.1 can be used on the new versions of > the chosen supported distros. > > I had initially suggested we have people doing test and any relevant > development around the beta cycles of Ubuntu and Fedora: > > Fedora Beta (2011-09-20) > Ubuntu (2011-09-01) > In this time frame OpenSUSE will be on Milestone 5 (2011-09-01) which > afaict (based on the 6th milestone being followed by an RC) should > roughly equate to a beta. > > However this aligns with our RC period at which point we may not want > to accept large patches? > > To meet our stabilise complete goal of August 29th we'd have to have > people testing with: > Fedora Alpha (2011-08-16) > Ubuntu Alpha 3 (2011-08-04) > OpenSUSE Milestone 4 (2011-08-11) >
Thanks for the information, Josh. I will add these into our test plan to make sure the above distribution(N+1) is validated. > What are peoples thoughts on this? I think the onus for this testing > will fall on engineers as the project QA is already pretty stretched. > I have a tendency to update to early releases on at least one machine > so will no doubt do some testing on Fedora but it would be nice to > have a genuine strategy for this rather than relying on ad-hoc developer > upgrades. > > Final note: I'm left wondering if this emails contents also make sense > as a wiki page? > > Cheers, > Joshua > > 1. https://wiki.pokylinux.org/wiki/Yocto_1.1_Schedule > 2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricReleaseSchedule > 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Schedule > 4. http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap Best Regards, Jiajun _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
