Folks, I guess this is important enough for me pinging you. Below is the Debian Installer beta4 release schedule, so please organise your own schedule (and your team's schedule) for having something ready for beta4.
We will have a string freeze this time, though it may be a bit loose (changes related to ports will be allowed). So, you will have time but you will need some close attention to status pages anyway.
The last week-end of April will be the "hot" week-end for d-i translators.
As informal coordinator for l10n, I will unfortuntely be away for holidays, so no way to keep an eye on all this.
----- Forwarded message from Joey Hess joeyh@debian.org -----
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 20:55:55 -0400 From: Joey Hess joeyh@debian.org To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: timeline for beta 4 X-Mailing-List: debian-boot@lists.debian.org archive/latest/59136
This may seem early, but beta 4 is closer than it may appear.
1-16 april development and porting
We're in this period now.
17-22 april string freeze; general development slowdown; porting continues
We'll need to slow down on general development (in trunk, anyway) during this period, and begin to look at stabilising the installer. A lot of stuff has been breaking, and making things harder for porters. Porting will continue during this time period (might include 2.6 porting), and porters can break the string freeze if necessary.
23 april upload translated udebs to archive 24 april last possible changes to udebs on initrds 25 april initrd builds 26 april initrd builds continue (slow autobuilders) 27 april cd building, testing 28 april release beta 4
We passed a nice milestone earlier this week, when the d-i images autobuilt for 10 architectures. The lone failure was on powerpc, which is due to problems with the autobuilder, not us.
We've now had recent success reports for all architectures except hppa and s390. Arm and mipsel are notable additions. Hppa is blocked by a libc bug (though there's a workaround), and a lack of people working on it (right now). S390 is still blocked by parted.
Of our errata for beta 3, the following are still problems to be best of my knowledge, and need to be fixed soon:
- hardware raid problems (probably fixed, but as of yet, unverified) - alpha cannot install from SCSI cdrom - ia64 netboot installs broken - sparc CDs broken - Arabic and Hebrew display problems (progress has been made)
Of the other possible goals for this release, these remain undone:
- use the new boot logo (needs to have the sarge version number fixed) - a less intimidating grub install screen - 2.6 kernel support