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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> > 1. Test ISOs are released by an ISO Team member (preferrably the one working 
> > on
> > that release, e.g. Benoit for the 0.9.4 -test series) and posted to testing/ 
> > on
> > http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/ and announced to sm-discuss only (not
> > sm-announce).
> Good, we're doing that.

Yeap, just making sure it's "official". :)

> > 2. Once a test ISO looks like it's getting ready for a final release, a Team
> > Lead (ISO Team Lead or Project Lead) will use the scripts in
> > //sgl/cauldron/devel to generate an -rc release for further testing (the first
> > -rc, -rc1, should be an exact copy of the last -test release) and announce to
> > sm-discuss and sm-announce (as well as posting to the testing/ directory).
> Erm, there's a little problem there. As of yet, (AFAIK), the ISO does not
> solely depend on the scripts used in the creation of it, but some handcraft
> is needed to make and maintain the chroot from which is it made.
> This means that bugs like 7993 or 7279 keep getting on if one is not careful.
> So for the meantime, maybe those people who pushed out the test release
> should also release the rc.

The point of this is to make sure that the ISO creation scripts don't
need a "special" environment to be made (other than perhaps a "safe"
chroot system) and that at least two people (the ISO script creator
and a Team Lead) can make ISOs without (much) finangling of their
current system/chroot.

> > 3. Once an -rc is labeled as "bug free" (in that we get no more reports) a 
> > Team
> > Lead (ISO Team Lead or Project Lead) will use the scripts in
> > //sgl/cauldron/stable (which will be branched from //sgl/cauldron/devel into
> > //sgl/cauldron/stable and //sgl/cauldron/release/<version> [e.g.
> > //sgl/cauldron/release/0.9.4/]) to generate a final release, post to
> > http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/ and announce to sm-discuss, sm-announce,
> > distrowatch.com, and any others we can think of.
> Good, so we'll keep archives of what we created the ISOs of.

That's the idea. :)

> > And just to be clear on what's happening now we're currently focusing on using
> > the scripts in //sgl/cauldron/devel (the scripts currently maintained by
> > Benoit) to put out a 0.9.4 ISO (with all the bugs fixed from 0.9.3, along with
> > any others found during the 0.9.4 -test series) and once a 0.9.4 final is out
> > we can start looking into the -ng series (Karsten's work) and bringing in the
> > modular smgl.install (David's work).
> Okay, I'll bring davids work into the ng series as soon as it's semi-ready
> (meaning about as stable as the current smgl.install - not too much)
> David, please give me a call when that is.

His will also go into //sgl/cauldron/devel once 0.9.4 is out, if it's
ready.

> So Far,
>  Karsten

-sandalle

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