In <[🔎] 1291365913.14968.1@compax>, Klistvud wrote: >Dne, 03. 12. 2010 09:12:48 je Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisal(a): >> Getting in contact with the release team >> >> might get Eric a SHA before the official release date though, so that >> the >> jewel case inserts can be prepared and released at the same time as >> the >> images. > >??? Isn't SHA bound to change with *every* fresh ISO build (even if >just one bit of just one package is changed) ??? Yes. I'm not too familiar with the Debian release process, but I imagine there is some period of time between the ISO build and it actually being available from the CD mirrors and advertised on the website. During such a window, it may be possible to build the jewel case insert. As an analogue, the various distribution packaging teams that are in contact with the KDE[1] release team get release tarballs up to a week before they are publicized. This is done so that when the official release occurs, KDE can point users at distribution-provided packages made from the official tarballs which serve most users better than downloading the official tarballs themselves. This allows for a relatively big, sudden release "event", rather than a trickle of official tarballs on day 1, a half-dozen PPAs and OBS packages on days 2-3, a Fedora RPM that some user try on their OpenSUSE system to much failure on day 4, and official packages from (irate) maintainers on days 5-6. (They are irate because some users have been bugging them over-and- over for a week that their distribution is dying because they don't have the latest KDE SC release but not sharing the [sometimes significant] work that goes into a new release of a software package as large as KDE SC.) (It takes them 6 days instead of 3 for the same reason, plus the KDE mirrors are overloaded the entire time.) So, probably there is *already* a post-build, pre-publication time window for the CD images that Eric might be able to fit into for producing high-quality jewel case inserts. [1] I'm not picking on KDE, I imagine other projects of the same size might have similar procedures. Really, it's a per-project preference. Some projects may not be bothered by the "trickle effect" or see more value in getting the official release tarballs out ASAP. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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