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[Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

Well, we've made great progress towards the stable release. Most of the
spells are tested. Theres 13 spells left unclaimed, and a few more beyond
that waiting for testing. Once those get tested and assuming theres no
gating bugs, we're ready to release. Perhaps we could streamline
basesystem in the future by having a few people do a rebuild?

Changing topics slightly, today is moving day for me. So I may not have
great connectivity this next week. We'll see. Worst case if Im unable
to check in on things heres what I'd like to see happen.

Finish up testing.
Discuss any possibly gating bugs on the wiki, come to some sort of a 
consensus.
Fix any gating bugs, get the fixes in stable-rc.
Create a new chroot tarball by running system-update in a freshly unpacked
instance of the current chroot (post it somewhere).
Next sunday release it.

My git may be rusty but it should look like this:
git checkout stable-rc-0.6
git branch stable-0.6
git push origin stable-0.6:stable-0.6
build sign and upload tarball (swoolley this means you, I guess)
Send some sort of release announcement to sm-announce and to freshmeat.net

To start the next release repeat the above git stuff but with test
and stable-rc-0.7. Then copy the wiki and blank out all the sign-off's
and notes. Possibly change what spells you work on, or work on ways to
streamline things (rebuild?).

Thanks everyone for stepping in to help get this release out.

-Andrew



On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 05:01:33PM -0800, Andrew wrote:
> So the release process officially starts today. There was some talk
> on irc in greater detail of how to test. None of this is set in stone
> yet, though, Im just making it up as I go along :-) I anticipate things
> evolving over several cycles as all of us try this and figure out what
> works and what doesnt.
> 
> A number of people have signed up for spells on the wiki[0]. Some still
> remain however, and we need people to pick them up (this means you). Many
> hands make light work, so please if you havent yet take one, or two :-) If
> you're not a developer and looking for a way to help with smgl, this is an
> easy way to get your feet wet. Here are the remaining basesystem spells:
> 
> basesystem (the profile spell)
> bash
> binutils
> bison
> bzip2
> cpio
> e2fsprogs
> flex
> gcc
> gettext
> gnupg
> grub
> gzip
> iana-etc
> init.d
> less
> locale
> m4
> make
> mktemp
> module-init-tools
> nano
> net-tools
> patch
> perl
> procps
> sed
> shadow
> simpleinit-msb
> smgl-archspecs
> smgl-fhs
> texinfo
> unzip
> util-linux
> zlib
> 
> Some of these might be accounted for by someone, if that someone is you,
> can you please update the wiki. Thanks :-)
> 
> There was some chatter on irc over the implementation of the "signing off"
> procedure. Here's where things are (again not set in stone). Dinolinux has
> volunteered to get a stable (0.4) chroot tarball for testing purposes. If
> you're already are running stable somewhere, you dont need to wait, just
> test with that. Otherwise, download the chroot once it becomes available.
> 
> In the meantime search bugzilla for bugs with your spells, fix those
> you consider gating, note those you dont consider gating on the wiki.
> 
> Test your spells by first installing them in the stable environment
> (if not already installed), then add stable-rc (0.6) and try updating
> the spell. If the spell is broken and wont install from stable,
> then just try installing it straight from stable-rc.  Whatever path
> applies, and whatever issues you find, if any, note them on the wiki
> page. File bugs when appropriate. If you think a bug is "non-gating",
> state that. Im deliberatly not defining "gating" in any formal way
> right now.
> 
> Stable chroot production this time around will use a base install from
> the latest released iso and then updated to stable 0.4. For subsequent
> cycles a new chroot will come from running sorcery system-update in the
> previous one. We'll keep system-updating the chroot until theres a new
> iso with which to make a new chroot from (or something, we'll figure
> that out later). I think we'll do that system-update in the chroot before
> the stable release, so the chroot will be available immediatly for the
> next cycle.
> 
> In short: pick some spells, note them on the wiki, fix any gating
> bugs you find in bugzilla, download the stable chroot tarball when it
> becomes available, test a spell upgrade to stable-rc, fix any issues
> you find. When you're done, sign-off on those spells on the wiki.
> 
> Of course, any suggestions or ideas are welcome.
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> [0] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Stable-0.6
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