Fedora 11 Beta Release Readiness Meeting
2009-03-18
Notes recorded collaboratively by all attendees using gobby
== Invitees ==
Ambassadors -- David Nalley (present)
Artwork/Design -- Máirín Duffy (present)
Documentation -- Eric Christensen (present)
FESCo -- Jon Stanley (present)
Fedora Engineering Manager -- Tom "Spot" Callaway (present)
Fedora Project Leader -- Paul Frields (present)
Infrastructure -- Mike McGrath (present)
Marketing -- Jack Aboutboul (present)
Quality -- James Laska (present)
Release Engineering -- Jesse Keating (present)
Translation -- Diego Búrigo Zacarão (present)
Websites -- Ricky Zhou (present)
Facilitator -- John Poelstra (present)
== Agenda/Notes ==
1) Are there any known reasons we will not be able to release on
Tuesday, March 24, 2009?
--if "yes," what are our contingency plans?
* Waiting on a "known good" anaconda for the beta tree
* Last possible date for a good anaconda is tomorrow (2009-03-18)
otherwise release will have to slip
** Need communicate (if necessary) with FESCo before their meeting
* Anaconda storage rewrite still landing code as of yesterday
** Upstream release didn't quite make Wed 2009-03-18 Rawhide
** Need a good idea of what's known not working, and what's thought
to be properly working so we can compare with Rawhide and Beta
** We have ~1 day to get a good sense of which bugs need to be
addressed, and get test results on outstanding areas
** Add to the release notes or "known bugs" section as issues are
found--easy to remove if they are solved later
** Jesse to contact anaconda team
** jlaska: Mixed feelings on whether we can do that by COB tomorrow
* FESCo covered ext4 at last week's meeting
** Eric Sandeen thinks it's good to go
** some apps still requiring FS to play nanny
2) Discuss or announce topics or issues that all of the teams on the
call would benefit from knowing about.
* Marketing talking points are ready
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Talking_Points
* News distribution network
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_news_distribution_network
* Look into potential translation issues
** Jack will send email to fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx
** Diego will followup and see what can be done
* Art team needs a slogan from Marketing to integrate into the release
(GA) banner/website
* sparks: Release notes
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes
** need more details on network changes
** Jack is going to give a look and see what other things can be added
* Infrastructure tickets -
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/9
** Everything in good shape... working on some low risk behind the
scenes changes like disk space, etc.
* Ambassadors in good shape, though work (??) is light at this point
in the release cycle
** will increase as we get closer to the final release
* Websites only one page (+ 1 banner) to change so looking good
* Kind, fair, polite critique of the new F11 background artwork would
be greatly appreciated
* Docs team will create the release announcement and would like input
from the marketing team
** Sparks will steal from last Beta release.
(http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00016.html)
3) What things should we be planning for now that we have not previously
discussed that will make the final release of Fedora 11 better than any
past release?
* Spot: Most of the things that can be done will mostly need to happen
after beta--testing of release, etc.
* Spot/Jlaska: Good list of test days coming up--best we've had so far
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/F11)
** Two open slots (2009-05-07 and 2009-05-21) - no objections to
hosting events on other days than Thursday
** To propose a test day ...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/Create
* Jon Stanley: Can we make the audio from these meetings more widely
available to community as discussed at the F11 Alpha meeting?
** John Poelstra had requested ability after last meeting in
infrastructure ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1160
** John to talk with Mike after the meeting
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