Build streams; preparing for 8.2 release.

[Chris Ball]

Hi,

At the IRC software meeting yesterday we discussed creating some new
build streams in preparation for our August "8.2" release.  These
streams were proposed:

* Unstable/Joyride:  This will move immediately (well, within a day or
  two) to be a copy of the "olpc-3" stream, which is a build stream
  preparing for a switch to Fedora 9, instead of the current Fedora 7.
  
  The Joyride release process will continue to be followed here.  There
  is still a lot of work to be done on the F9-based build:  it will be
  broken for a while as the kinks are worked out.  Please help!

* Testing:  This will also be a copy of olpc-3, but with a different
  release process.  Changes will be moved from unstable into testing
  upon negotiation with the release engineer, Michael Stone.  This
  build stream will be used by our QA team and community to assess
  the readiness of features for the 8.2 release.

* Stable: Stable builds are specified by their release name (e.g. 8.1.1,
  8.2), and the procedure for packages moving from Testing into Stable
  releases involves the Unscheduled Release Process:
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Unscheduled_software_release_process

Anyone familiar with Debian's build naming will see intentional
similarities here.

Apologies in advance for any misunderstandings or omissions from the
discussion that crept in to this mail -- don't take this summary as
ratified until this thread stops getting new replies.  :)

Thanks!

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>