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