Fedora 16 Final Release Declared GOLD!

Robyn Bergeron rbergero at redhat.com
Thu Nov 3 19:15:49 UTC 2011


At the Fedora 16 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 16 Final 
Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on November 8, 2011.

And to clarify: It is a nice, golden, almost... mustard-like color. :)

Thank you to EVERYONE for your sleepless nights, endless testing, prompt 
bug-fixing, and endless patience through 5 release candidates.

A reminder that the Fedora 16 Release Wide Readiness Meeting will take
place Today, pretty much now, at 19:00 UTC (3 PM Eastern/ 12 PM Pacific) at
irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting-1
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings

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#fedora-meeting: F16 Final Go or No Go Meeting Round Two
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
========================================================

Meeting started by rbergeron at 18:00:29 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-11-03/f16_final_go_or_no_go_meeting.2011-11-03-18.00.log.html

Meeting summary
---------------
* Gathering Friends  (rbergeron, 18:00:47)

* Why are we here  (rbergeron, 18:01:27)
   * Purpose of this meeting is to determine if all the Release Criteria
     have been met, so we can ship this puppy out the door.  (rbergeron,
     18:02:17)
   * LINK:
     https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Final_Release_Criteria
     (rbergeron, 18:02:36)

* Blocker Bugs  (rbergeron, 18:02:53)
   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
     (rbergeron, 18:03:03)
   * Look at his beady, majestic eyes.  (rbergeron, 18:03:35)
   * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750469 was just
     reopened  (robatino, 18:03:56)
   * LINK:
     https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media-UNIX_Linux.html
     (tflink, 18:17:42)

* Test Matrices and etc.  (rbergeron, 18:25:30)
   * AGREED: 750469 needs to be fixed but does not need to delay f16
     release; we can fix by updating l-i-t-d in all extant releases (14,
     15)  (adamw, 18:25:43)
   * absolutely all tests are covered and pass or warn  (rbergeron,
     18:26:13)

* Release Engineering  (rbergeron, 18:29:03)
   * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4967#comment:17
     (tflink, 18:31:09)

* Anything else before we Set Sail?  (rbergeron, 18:35:01)

* To Go, or Not To Go?  (rbergeron, 18:36:49)
   * F16 is declared GOLD! Ship it.  (rbergeron, 18:38:51)
   * AGREED: F16 is declared GOLD! Ship it.  (rbergeron, 18:39:04)
   * Thanks to EVERYONE for your sleepless nights, your hard work, your
     bug fixing.  (rbergeron, 18:39:34)
   * And endless testing, and endless building.  (rbergeron, 18:39:45)
   * There is a readiness meeting in ~20 minutes here in #fedora-meeting.
     (rbergeron, 18:40:04)
   * rbergeron will send out a GOLDEN GOLD MAIL to mailing lists.
     (rbergeron, 18:40:22)
   * in #fedora-meeting-1.  (rbergeron, 18:40:39)
   * Grats to everyone on shipping yet another INCREDIBLY feature-filled
     release.  (rbergeron, 18:41:27)

Meeting ended at 18:42:18 UTC.


Action Items
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Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* **UNASSIGNED**
   * (none)

People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* rbergeron (88)
* adamw (54)
* thedonvaughn (25)
* nirik (20)
* jsmith (10)
* tflink (9)
* N1tr0g3n (9)
* bcl (8)
* zodbot (5)
* dlehman (5)
* kparal1 (2)
* red_alert (2)
* robatino (1)
* hno_ (1)




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