[oe] First release three weeks ahead. Tasks you can help with.

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Stefan Schmidt
<stefan at datenfreihafen.org> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> December the 1th is our first release due. It will be the first in a, hopefully
> long, row.
>
> As it is the first release it will not be perfect, but we should try to make it
> a stable base anyway. Some steps that I think should help are listed below:
>
> - Stop pushing maybe problematic changes in the last 2 weeks. That gives you one
>  week from now to get this in and fixed. So what is problematic? Changes to
>  bbclass files, the toolchain, core system services and changes that may
>  introduce runtime breakage should be avoided. There might be more.
>  If in doubt sent the patch to the ml and ask others what they think.
>
> - If you care about a specific machine, set of recipes or images start testing
>  them now in our testing-next branch. The plan was to base the release tag on
>  the testing-next branch. Or at least have it as fallback if master is broken.
>
>  The testing matrix in the wiki will be used in the release tag in the same way
>  it is used right now with the tested tag. Make sure the stuff you care is
>  listed there as working to show other they could use it in this release.
>
> - Try to take some hours in the last two weeks to get into bug fixing mode for
>  some moments and help OE forward to the release. check the ML for problem
>  reports and patches. Test, apply and mark them in patchwork as applied.
>
> I think that are the minimal steps we need to get a release out of the door.
> More will come when learning from the first releases.
>
> Anyone willing to take the release mainatainer hat for this release? My time is
> rather occupied with other things the next weeks. :/
> It would be only for this release. Afterwards we can discuss if this should be a
> fixed position or newly assigned for any release. Such a person should keep the
> people motivated to fix some bugs, monitor the commit log for potential problems
> and discuss them and finally make the release tag in the meta data.
>
> Any takers?

I would be able to help here with the release

>
> regards
> Stefan Schmidt
>
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