Re: Invite to join the Release Team
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:14:01AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> I would be happy if you could point out any specific insanity in the
> notes of the IRC meeting from yesterday. If it seems fine, it would be
> great if you could work on drafting a release update informing the
> project about the current status of squeeze and the plans for the
> immediate future. FWIW, I have at the moment no idea what the status of
> our release goals is, that's a subject someone needs to research.
This seems worthwhile. Would you like me to do this?
> Some of the transitions waiting to happen could profit from someone
> checking if everything alright. This means finding out which packages
> are affected, which of these need sourceful uploads and coordination
> with the maintainers of these packages. You know the business. If it
> should go to testing, care needs to be taken to not entangle it with any
> of the other ongoing transitions. When all of that is checked and
> prepared, the transitioning package can be uploaded and binNMUs be
> scheduled. If you want to do this yourself, it shouldn't be a problem to
> give you direct access to w-b.
I consider this one to be iffy ethically.
> We also need to get the number of rc bugs down if we want to release
> squeeze this year. To this end, it would be great if one or more
> (virtual) BSPs could be organized, possibly focussed at a specific type
> of bug.
> Besides the number of RC bugs, we also have some widely used packages
> where maintainers are overwhelmed by the number of bugs filed against
> their packages (KDE, Gnome, iceweasel, ...) While not strictly a release
> issue, triaging (and possibly fixing) bugs can be integrated into a BSP
> to give people something easier (but nonetheless tedious :-/) to do.
I think I am underqualified for this one because I have never understood
the point of a virtual BSP. I'll be happy to expend a minimal amount of
effort trying to expend a minimal amount of effort on inspiring others
to set up more in-person BSPs (with a triage focus).
> There is also the issue of the release notes. This was a problem for
> lenny, and it doesn't look like it will get any better for
> squeeze. The release notes need to be updated for squeeze and upgrade
> and installation tests on different configurations should be
> organized. It's a bit early to do it, as many components of squeeze are
> not done yet, but at least finding people who would be interested in
> working on this would be great.
I also think I am underqualified for this one since I've never read
any release notes.
> I guess that's all I have on my current release todo list. Does anything
> of that sound like you could live with yourself if you would do it?
Answered briefly above.
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