The 20050305 build of debian-installer went well and is now available in the
debian archive[1]. We also have netinst and businesscard CD images using that
build, that seem to be good[2]. All the kernels are in the archive at last,
and I know of no other blocking issues that remain. So this is the beginning
of a testing period to make sure all the images really work well before we
release rc3. A week of testing will probably be time well spent, which gives
us the following timeline for the release:
10 Mar debian-installer test build finishes (approximate)
test period
17 Mar final deadline for emergency changes for rc3 (optional)
begin final debian-installer package build (optional)
19 Mar final debian-installer package build complete (optional) [3]
20 Mar final netinst and businesscard CD builds
begin full CD builds
21 Mar final testing
22 Mar web site updates
23 Mar rc3 release
I hope that we can test the new images and fill in a large percentage of the
release checklist[4]. The more that's filled in the more confidence we can
have that rc3 will not have any bad new problems. I'm also updating the
errata on the web site for rc3 as more minor problems are discovered.
Also, we need to get a release announcement put together for rc3. Perhaps we
should just say it fixes a lot of rc2 errata, security holes, and other bugs
and leave it at that?
--
see shy jo
[1] ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-i386/20050305/images/
[2] http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20050309/
(and other arches of course)
[3] I expect we can build it faster than before if we need to thanks to some
improved prioritisation on the autobuilders.
[4] installer/doc/devel/release-checklist in the sarge branch of svn
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