I just finished most of my jobs for the Lenny release. I started, together with Mark Hymers, at 10:23 UTC. This was ahead schedule, which said 12:00 UTC, but better early than late. After disabling all our ftpmaster cronjobs, setting up our work environment and whatever else we needed and at 10:43 UTC we got the Release Teams GO. All of what we did got logged from screen, as we intend to write a dak tool doing such releases.

Anyway, I won’t bore you with a detailed set of actions we had to took, way too much for now, just some few moments (All times in UTC):

[ 10:23 ] turned off all cronjobs

[ 10:43 ] Release Team GO

[ 12:00 ] etch is now oldstable

[ 13:07 ] lenny is now stable

[ 13:28 ] squeeze is born (and lot of the work for it was parallel with the lenny work)

[ 14:18 ] the cd-builder host gets an exclusive push so people can start building cd images.

[ 15:34 ] squeeze is now grown up enough to be ready for the world. Most of the other work that had to be on the ftp-master machine before we are done is also done. ftp-master is ready for regular work again (but won’t do any yet).

[ 15:40 ] Lets start the work for the security archive

[16:54] The security archive is ready.

While writing this entry people are still doing work for the release. For example the cd building will take time, after all there are well over 500 images (and 36 live cds).

Current plan seems to be that we ftpmaster push the archive mirrors around 23:00 UTC, so it has time to sync everywhere. Some while later the cd mirror will get a push, and then the official announcement will happen.

Thanks go out to everyone involved in preparing this release, be it in the past by fixing bugs, uploading packages, doing whatever was needed, as well as doing the work today.