Re: [gentoo-releng] Release Engineering Status Update

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 16:38 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 11:22 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > In response to Patrick's request for status updates, I'm posting the
> > current Release Engineering status.
> >
> > Release Engineering is well into doing QA and testing for 2005.1 on x86,
> > amd64, ppc, ppc64, ia64, and alpha.  We are currently testing a new
> > version of livecd-tools, catalyst, and genkernel, all of which are
> > masked in the tree.  We have been on a massive bug-squashing session to
> > try to solve any problems before we start building the final release.
> >
> > Once we work out the few blocking issues we are reaching now, such as
> > the perl->ssl issue Robin was talking about, then we will build a "beta"
> > release for 2005.1, which we will start selecting groups of users,
> > mostly people who filed bugs against 2005.0, to help us with testing,
> > specifically on platforms or hardware which we do not possess ourselves.
> >
>
> Just curious, as I'm (obviously) out of the loop, is there any plan to
> integrate external kernel modules onto the liveCD (ie. madwifi, etc)?

We've only been doing that for a few releases now.

If it is marked stable in the tree, then yes.  Otherwise, we won't touch
it.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux