Re: towards a lenny release, part 2

[Daniel Hess <daniel@rio-grande.ping.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 01:38:22PM +0800, Holger Levsen wrote:
> the following timeline just occured to me:
> 
> Sunday, 11th of October: 
> 	Release Candidate 1
> 		Release whatever we have, to get familar with and document the 
> 		release process (build images, archive them, update documents)
> 
> Sunday, 25th of October: 
> 	Release Candidate 2
> 		Release a real candidate which we can use as a basis for testing
> 		and writing documentation at the gathering in Oslo
> 
> Suaturday, 14th of November 
> 	Release Debian Edu 5.0.3+edu0 Codename "Lenny"
> 	Cheers!!!
> 
> 
> Please join the party and make it happen!!! ;-) 
> 
> I think this timeline is entirely possible, if we concentrate on it and find 
> and squeeze the remaining bugs and accompany this with solid testing - what 
> do you think?

as already said on IRC, I would like to have a test release first.
My proposal would be something like this:

 First test release (5.0.3edu0 alpha0) ASAP:
  This is mainly missing the release notes. The first steps could be
  found in the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/ReleaseNotes
  A second problem is, that I found a regression (popup messages about
  removable devices pluged into the LTSP server are send to non-local
  users) which is fixed in lenny-test and should therefore also be
  fixed in lenny, which now has the same package versions (of the
  relevant packages). Maybe this is just a problem of my test install,
  I'm currently investigating this.

 Maybe more test releases depending on how many/what bugs are found.

 Fix new/remaining bugs in Oslo.

 Release a Release Candidate early in November (if releasable).

 Depending on bugs fixed release more Release Candidates.

 Aim to release in the end of November.

As you can see I do not have hard dates as Holger does, but I would like
to get a first test release out of the door real soon now, to get some
reports to work on in Oslo.

That are just my 2 cent and what I am working on currently.

Hope to hear more options and see more people to join the effort.

Regards,

Daniel