Build streams; preparing for 8.2 release.

[Kim Quirk]

Looks good to me. Thanks for writing it up.

Kim

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:

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