ReleaseEngineering/Meetings/2007-apr-16

= Fedora Release Engineering Meeting :: Monday 16-APR-07 =

Agenda

 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BillNottingham/ReleaseMeetingsDraft

Executive Summary
1. Freezing for Test4 tomorrow (17-APR-07) a. Rawhide a. the final release. 1. Merge of extras and core 1. In the future we should consider a mass rebuild of all packages around, but no later than test2 for technical reasons only (toolchain changes, rpm changes, etc..) 1. Still working on increasing build capacity 1. Discussion of Features 1. wwoods reported on the state of the trees + discussion of important areas needing testing 1. wwoods will write the test4 announcement which will include known problems, newly added features, and upgrade issues 1. Blocker bugs 1. Potential schedule slips 1. Open discussion 1. Next Release Engineering Meeting
 * f13 to create tag and start signing packages on 17-APR-07
 * start of continuous freeze until Fedora 7 goes GOLD
 * potential checkins for F8 starting in June (assuming all goes well)
 * any builds will have to be brought to rel-eng@fedoraproject.org before it'll get included in:
 * Eventually need documentation surrounding the freeze and distro build process
 * will not delay F7
 * will most likely to be completed before F7 final is released
 * held up because of equipment needed in the colo
 * post-merge some packages will need to be rebuilt to pick up deps that used to be in Extras
 * incomplete features at this stage of the release will be dropped
 * incomplete features will not block the release
 * poelcat will go ping feature owners and update the wiki
 * Unclear whether codecbuddy is in or out: controversy over whether it should block the release or not
 * Known feature which are OUT: boot/shutdown, customdistro (as written) fix wakeups, newinit, syslogng, texlive
 * Known feature which are IN: fast-user-switching, fds, everything, kde, prime, targeted spins, firewire, libata, livecd, nouveau, rpm/yum, wireless, tickless, pungi, firmware, smolt
 * looking pretty solid
 * most concerned about the pata/libata changeover
 * concerns about iwlwifi and e1000 changes
 * upgrade testing from FC6 and FC5
 * automated testing is being conducted using KATE
 * SNAKE scheduled for release around May 3
 * Friday is a kernel bug triaging day
 * bad mkinitrd bug which hoses scsi    *BZ 220470
 * Blocker bugs are best try; not *all* blocker bugs must be fixed to go GA
 * Blocker bug criteria: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria
 * F7 blocker bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=150226 is the big blocker for FC7
 * F7T4 blocker bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=F7Test4
 * none known at this time
 * cdrkit
 * need to decide what to do with it
 * Extras vs. Core and when to merge
 * wwoods "I got confirmation from the bluez maintainer that the firmware is freely redistributable (although non-modifiable), just like the intel firmware"
 * Thursday 19-APR-07 at 18:00 UTC (14:00 EDT)
 * Coordination of sub-groups
 * Test4 status
 * When should we branch for F8?

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