Alpha freeze refresh on Tuesday?

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Fri Jan 23 05:49:19 UTC 2009


On 23.01.2009 02:11, Josef Bacik wrote:
> 2009/1/22 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
>> So we're actually in a better place for alpha than I thought we'd be.
>> Installer, which we care most about for Alpha, is in a good place and
>> working well, for the most part.  There are a couple lingering issues,
>> some with work arounds, some without (ppc) but if we wanted to, we could
>> take the current frozen content and produce the bits for Alpha.  Only
>> our release date is a week from Tuesday, which would put Alpha a bit
>> long in the tooth.
>>
>> Since we've got installer where we want it, and rawhide itself isn't too
>> terrible (minus the sqlite issue today), I'm considering a refresh of
>> the alpha tag on Tuesday and making the Alpha from that content.  This
>> of course depends on rawhide not destroying itself in the next few days,
>> but we can make a judgment call on Tuesday for that.
> 
> I would love that personally, it will give me some time to test the
> btrfs part of the install to make sure any other random issues are
> mostly worked out.  I know its not an important part or anything, but
> it would be nice for something thats been advertised to not completely
> throw up on an unsuspecting tester.  Thanks,

Would also be nice to get the fix for
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481112
into anaconda to make sure ext4 gets properly tested in the alpha. Fix 
is discussed on anaconda-devel right now, but not applied yet to git 
(and thus not yet in rawhide) afaics.

CU
knurd




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