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Hi all - |
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Hopefully your week has gone well. I would have mailed an update |
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earlier, but my school managed to break their exchange (ugh) server |
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which in turn destroyed my school mail account. |
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Progress on 2004.1 is going well. The 2004.1 homepage, where any and all |
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information regarding 2004.1 can be found, is online at |
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<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2004.1/releng/2004.1.xml>. |
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I advise the arch release coordinators to carefully review that page, as |
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well as the 2004.1 feature request list |
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(<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2004.1/releng/feature-request.xml>), as both documents set both the goals and vision for 2004.1. |
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The much anticipated Release Guidelines are in development and will be |
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posted to both the web and -releng very soon. |
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2004.1 is not that far off (April 28th tentatively), so there are some |
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things that arch release coordinators might want to start doing. I would |
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recommend getting a release test cycle in place where (at the very |
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least) stages and LiveCDs are rebuilt at a regular interval so that bugs |
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can be identified and addressed. Two of the main goals for 2004.1, as |
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mentioned on the 2004.1 homepage, are to be high quality and relatively |
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stress free. Good QA processes are one of the first steps that can be |
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taken to achieve these goals. |
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Next, stackable profiles are on the way. The goal of this feature is to |
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remove the bloat from profiles and in the process create a much more |
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intuitive system. Bug seemant about the profiles for your arch. |
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If there are any questions or concerns, you know where to find me ;) |
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Cheers, |
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//zhen |
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John Davis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen> |
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