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Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

From: Otavio Salvador <otavio(at)debian.org>
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 17:04:23 EST


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Hello folks,

I've been working at migrations of packages for lenny and I think we're more or less fine to define a timeline to the end of Febuary for the release of Beta1.

This is going to be my first release as d-i RM and so I'm a bit nervous and doing small mistakes (as everybody has probably noticed already).

There're few open questions that I'd like to discuss here before we make it:

  • kernel to release

   We have 2.6.22 as a safe bed on lenny now and their udebs are there    too however since EtchAndHalf intends to release with 2.6.24 and it    has been uploaded to sid already I'm considering a better option to    us to release with it.

   linux-2.6 has been built in all architectures and    linux-modules-extra-2.6 has been fastly processed (thanks    ftpmasters) and then we could manage to get a massbuild done in few    days (+- 5 of febuary or even before). I've started to check the    new modules and prepare the patches for kernel-wedge for it and    hope to get it ready for tomorrow or so.

  • e2fsprogs inode size change
Do you need help?X

   Lastest release[1] changed the default inode size to 256    bytes. This is not yet on lenny but is already available on sid and    will hit lenny in few days.

  1. http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.40.5

   Currently, there's a know problem with GRUB[2] and the safest solution    is to change the current inode size back to 128 bytes using -I    option of mke2fs for Beta1 release and then work on GRUB or GRUB2    to support it for lenny Beta2 release with 256 bytes again.

   2. http://bugs.debian.org/463236

Please, I'd like to ask for comments on above points so we can decide about the timeline.

The current timeline that looks sane is:

+---------+-----------------------------------------------+

|Date     |What happens                                   |

+---------+-----------------------------------------------+

|2/1/2007 |translation update request is send             |

+---------+-----------------------------------------------+

|2/15/2007|mass upload of translation updates             |

+---------+-----------------------------------------------+
|2/15/2007|kernel, modules and their udebs hitted testing |
+---------+-----------------------------------------------+
|2/16/2007|mass migration of udebs                        |

+---------+-----------------------------------------------+

|2/17/2007|debian-installer is uploaded                   |

+---------+-----------------------------------------------+
|2/19/2007|daily images are changed to use lenny installer|
+---------+-----------------------------------------------+
|2/21/2007|test of images starts                          |

+---------+-----------------------------------------------+

|2/27/2007|final image builds                             |

+---------+-----------------------------------------------+

|3/1/2007 |planned release date                           |

+---------+-----------------------------------------------+

Obviously, to be able to get there, we all need to work together. This means that d-i team, kernel team, release team, and package maintainers of packages that builds udebs will need to work closely those days and cooperate each other.

One thing that could delay whole release is the migration of xorg package to testing. It needs to go otherwise we won't have desktop installation properly working on Beta1 since we don't use discover1 and xresprobe for detection anymore.

Do you need more help?X

I'm sure we all can do that and I'll do my best to work closely of you all too.

What people say?

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