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 -------------- Now String freeze; soft freeze for commits, bug fixing OK 16 Oct 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 25 Oct Weekly full CD build for new installer 26-29 Oct Testing and fixes for full CDs FINAL UPLOAD ------------ 22 Oct End of string freeze; full freeze for udebs 23 Oct Upload all udebs with translation updates or pending changes 25/26 Oct Most udebs should have migrated to testing 26 Oct Final build and upload of d-i 27 Oct Switch daily links to etch_d-i 27-30 Oct Final testing using daily images 30 Oct Weekly full CD build 1- 4 Nov Further testing 1- 4 Nov Preparation of release notes, errata, etc. 5 Nov Migration of d-i to testing 3/ 4 Nov CD builds 5 Nov 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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