OK, We've not yet released a Sarge-based Debian-Edu, but we are heading
there. While we are struggeling, there Is already (kind of) set a
release date for Debian Etch.
>From other discussions, I know that the goal is to get Gnome 2.14 into
Etch, not sure which KDE version would fit.
But this means that if we release a Sarge based Debian-Edu in December,
we will have ~6 months for new things to enter Etch. Then we have some
months to do some minor fixing, and finally we should have an Etch based
Debian-Edu December 2006. This means that could start to break things at
the schools when the students arrive after the Summer of 2006, and
hopefully make things stable just before the exam period starts before
Xmas.
I've shortened the message a bit :-)
You can find the full announcement at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/10/msg00004.html
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch
Resent-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:02:27 -0500 (CDT)
Resent-From: debian-devel-announce at l.d.o
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:02:17 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <vorlon at d.o>
To: debian-devel-announce at l.d.o
So I guess that taking four months for the release team to comment on
the release of sarge makes the sarge release itself seem timely and
efficient... right? (Of course right.)
....
.....
Finally, a big thank you to to the rest of our release team who helped
make sarge possible: Colin Watson, Andreas Barth, and Frank
Lichtenheld. I'm not sure any of us knew what we were signing up for,
but it's definitely been a blast. We should do this again some time,
guys!
We Should Do This Again Some Time
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
While everyone else was revelling in the newfound freedom to break
unstable *HARD* these past few months, the release team has been busy
plotting how best to spoil your fun by bringing testing back into line
for another release. We had a release team meeting back in June to
discuss plans for etch, and have set a target date for the release in
December 2006. This is the timeline that we think will get us there:
N-117 = Mon 30 Jul 06: freeze essential toolchain, kernels
N-110 = Mon 7 Aug 06: freeze base, non-essential toolchain (including
e.g. cdbs)
N-105 = Mon 14 Aug 06: d-i RC [directly after base freeze]
N-45 = Wed 18 Oct 06: general freeze [about 2 months after base
freeze, d-i RC]
N = Mon 4 Dec 06: release [1.5 months for the general freeze]
We believe that one key to meeting these deadlines is letting
maintainers know about them well in advance so that they can plan
accordingly, so -- here we are.
The base-freeze used for sarge served its purpose, though for obvious
reasons we would like the base freeze for etch to not be quite so long.
This gives us the beginning of the freeze at the end of July 2006,
starting with the essential toolchain and the kernels; followed a week
later by other toolchain packages and the full base system, and
immediately afterwards the publishing of what we hope will be the final
installer release candidate.
The general freeze will follow in October 2006, lasting roughly as long
as the sarge freeze did.
....
--
Steve Langasek [vorlon@debian.org]
Debian Release Team
[0] http://www.advogato.org/person/vorlon/diary.html?start=10
[1] http://www.debian.org/intro/organization
[2] http://www.debian.org/devel/people
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
[4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/09/msg00007.html
[5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/09/msg00199.html
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Finn-Arne Johansen
faj@bzz.no http://bzz.no/
Leverandør av support på, drift og videreutvikling av Skolelinux-løsninger
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