Let's review the d-i beta4 timeline again; 1-16 april development and porting This period is over. Porting continues, random development that has the potential to break things does not. 17-22 april string freeze; general development slowdown; porting continues And we've entered the string freeze. No new strings and no changes to string wording in this period, unless it's very important for one of the ports that did not release in beta3, or unless you can unfuzzy all the translations by yourself. Development should focus on a) ports b) fixing serious bugs that would otherwise go in the errata. Any code changes that are in subversion trunk but are not yet uploaded to the debian archive need to be uploaded if they're known good, and if they're not, may need to be moved to a branch so we can upload updated translations. This includes autopartkit, base-installer, kbd-chooser, languagechooser, netcfg, nobootloader, partitioner, prebaseconfig. Please be conservative, we need to stablise the installer this week, and avoid breaking anything. We already have 11 languages at 100% on the second day of the string freeze. We're aiming for 30+, and this is a short string freeze. 23 april upload translated udebs to archive 23 april write draft release announcement 24 april last possible changes to udebs on initrds 25 april initrd builds 26 april initrd builds continue (slow autobuilders) 27 april cd building, testing 28 april release beta 4 There is still some beta3 errata that may be unfixed: - hardware raid problems (probably fixed, but as of yet, unverified) - alpha cannot install from SCSI cdrom - ia64 netboot installs broken - sparc CDs broken (may have just been fixed, confirm?) - Arabic and Hebrew display problems (progress has been made, but it won't make beta4) If any of these are fixed, please let me know. Unfortunatly, we have still not had recent success on s390 and hppa. There have been some improvements in the s390 situation, some work is happening on each, and I still have hope for both these architectures, but it will take a concerted effort this week to get them into a releasable state. I think it's important that we go on and release beta4 on time anyway, even though things will not look good for s390 and hppa if they are not supported by it. -- see shy jo
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