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Re: plans for d-i rc2 (and Oldenburg meeting)



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On Saturday 18 September 2004 02:07, Joey Hess wrote:
> Which alternative is better, I leave up to you -- and the timetables of
> the release managers.

My feeling is we should focus on the release, not new features.
Having a new 'unofficial' release to sarge without string freeze sounds like 
a good idea. For one thing, this would get broader testing of the new 
kernels. The idea of doing that straight after Oldenburg sounds good.
IMHO, after that we should really focus on bugfixes and finalizing 
translations and not do any more other changes until RC2 is out.

For Oldenburg I would propose to work on the major problems that are still 
there (like old-world Mac's, the boot-2 floppy) and on preparing the 
release (like deciding which translations to include).

I also think that having people together in Oldenburg and being able to 
quickly ask if a certain para in the manual is still valid or should be 
removed and what new arch-specific information maybe should be included, 
could really give a boost to the manual.

Personally, I also plan to work on the possibility of using .po files for 
manual translation and building ps/pdf/txt versions of the manual.

With regard to translation. If there are any components currently in SVN/Sid 
that will _not_ make it to the Sarge release, we should allow translators 
to update the translations for the version that _will_ be in the release 
for Sarge. As I understand it, all translation work and corrections are 
currently done against whatever is in SVN HEAD.
(So maybe work that won't make it to Sarge should be moved into a branch and 
the version for Sarge should be made HEAD in preparation for a string 
freeze.)

Cheers,
FJP
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