Release Team Sprint Results

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From: Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debian.org>

Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 11:52:31 +0000

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The Release Team recently held a sprint, with the following aims: - complete planning for Jessie - review the freeze process - sprint release bugs and improvements in our tooling We would like to thank ARM for hosting and caffeinating us, and Codethink for feeding us. Travel sponsorship was funded by donations to Debian. Freeze ====== Debian 8 "Jessie" was frozen on 5th November 2014. Please ensure you are familiar with the freeze policy <POLICY>. POLICY: https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html Unblocks ======== At the time of writing, we had already dealt with 162 unblock requests. Of those, 17 require further information from the submitter, and three were pre-approvals awaiting upload. Sixteen unblock bugs await our attention. Please continue to file unblocks with as much information included as possible; see <FREEZE-ANN>. FREEZE-ANN: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00003.html Transitions =========== All transitions have been completed, with only a little tidying up remaining for libjpeg-turbo. Release notes ============= We seek patches and editors for the release notes. We identified the following topics as being particularly important: - init system changes - How to choose (before upgrading) - Pros / cons of "upgrading" - i486 support dropped There are many other new areas that could be included. If you'd like to get involved, please contact us for further details. Codenames ========= Our release managers chose the following codenames for future releases: * Debian 9 "Stretch" * Debian 10 "Buster" Artwork / Debian Installer ========================== Cyril Brulebois is co-ordinating artwork for Jessie, and expects that it will be ready before the holiday season. We'd like to thank those contributors who prepared artwork for this release. Jessie's artwork can be seen at <ARTWORK>. Development of the installer continues, and is progressing well. There are a few minor issues to iron out, and Cyril will be approving unblocks to packages producing udebs by hand for the time being. Please try to avoid udeb disruption and be patient if you're waiting for an unblock. ARTWORK: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Lines Team Changes ============ For the Stretch cycle, Niels Thykier and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort will be Release Managers. Julien Cristau joins Adam D. Barratt and Philipp Kern as a Stable Release Manager. Upgrade and installation tests ============================== Please carry out upgrade tests from Wheezy to Jessie, and file your experience against the upgrade-reports pseudo-package. We also appreciate tests of fresh installations, with reports against installation-reports. Architectures ============= There remained yes/no decisions for arm64, ppc64el, and kfreebsd. arm64 and ppc64el have made enough progress to be release architectures for Jessie. Britney no longer has special handling for these two. Therefore, FTBFS regressions for arm64 and ppc64el are now release critical (but non-regressions are not). We discussed kfreebsd at length, but are not satisfied that a release with Jessie will be of sufficient quality. We are dropping it as an official release architecture, though we do hope that the porters will be able to make a simultaneous unofficial release. Freeze process review ===================== We conducted an internal review of the freeze process for this cycle. Release Team members generally expressed satisfaction at the process. We made a conscious decision to improve communication and publish our detailed plans early in the cycle, and this worked well. There is room for improvement. A future freeze will include a transition freeze, a soft freeze, and then the final hard freeze. Soft freezes will see us expect maintainers to comply with the freeze policy, but this will not be strictly enforced by technical means. The hard freeze will see the usual manual migrations by technical means. Packages not in testing by the time the soft freeze begins will not be migration candidates. We're likely to fine-tune this process during the next cycle, and we will publish more specific details in due course. For the release team: -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51