Project:RelEng/LiveCD/2006.1
This guide serves as the definitive source for all 2006.1 information.
Goals
The primary goal of 2006.1 is to improve the quality of the Gentoo release media by including more drivers. We are also looking to improve the quality of the build over the last release, which is a recurring goal with every release.
The secondary goal of this release is to build experimental LiveCD images for at least one architecture other than AMD64/x86 to facilitate Gentoo Linux Installer testing.
Information
Release resources
Release notes:
- Alpha release notes
- AMD64 release notes
- HPPA release notes
- PPC release notes
- SPARC release notes
- x86 release notes
There will be DIGESTS files for all release media on the Gentoo mirrors.
All release media will be signed by the Gentoo Linux Release Engineering (releng@gentoo.org) PGP key. The public key ID is 0x17072058, and the key is available through the subkeys.pgp.net keyserver.
Contacts and schedule
Contacts:
- Release Operations: Tim Yamin
- Documentation: Shyam Mani
- Infrastructure: Jeff Forman
- PR: Christel Dahlskjaer
Schedule:
| Milestone | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Build tools QA | The release building tools are feature-frozen and are QA checked for proper building on each architecture that plans on releasing. | Completed |
| QA testing | Release components have been thoroughly tested in accordance with the QA guidelines. At least one test release has been made by this time by each architecture. | Completed |
| Official snapshot | The official portage freeze is completed. From this point forward, only bug/security fixes are introduced into the release tree that affect the release media. | Completed |
| Final QA | After the successful build of the release materials, a final "once over" is given to each piece of the release materials to test functionality and correctness. | Completed |
| Release upload | All release components are uploaded to the official release staging area on the Release Engineering AMD64 box for signing and MD5/SHA1 verification. | Completed |
| PR written | All PR items, including release notes for each architecture, are completed. Release notes are committed to CVS, and the PR items are prepared. | Completed |
| Release handover | Release Engineering makes one final check of all materials, then hands it over to Infrastructure for staging and release. | Completed |
| Mirrors are staged | Infrastructure stages the mirrors and prepares PR items for final commit. | Completed |
| 2006.1 release | Infrastructure performs the final commit on PR items and makes the release materials live. 2006.1 is publicly released. | Completed |
Architectures releasing
The following supported architectures are tentatively releasing 2006.1:
| Architecture | Subarch(es) | Expected components for 2006.1 | Release coordinator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| alpha | alpha | InstallCDs, stages, release notes | kloeri |
| amd64 | amd64 | InstallCD, stages, LiveCD, release notes | kugelfang |
| hppa | hppa1.1, hppa2.0 | InstallCDs, stages, release notes | dertobi123 |
| ppc | G4, G5, power3, power4, power5, ppc, ppc64 | InstallCD, stages, LiveCD, release notes | pylon, ranger, dostrow |
| sparc | sparc32, sparc64 | InstallCDs, stages, release notes | gustavoz, weeve |
| x86 | x86, i686 | InstallCD, stages, LiveCD, release notes | agaffney |
The following unsupported architectures are tentatively releasing 2006.1:
| Architecture | Subarch(es) | Expected components for 2006.1 | Release coordinator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ia64 | ia64 | InstallCDs, stages, release notes | plasmaroo |
| mips | mips | LiveCD, stages, netboot images | Kumba |
If information regarding a specific architecture is wrong or has been omitted, please contact the release operations manager.
This page is based on a document formerly found on our main website gentoo.org.
The following people contributed to the original document: Chris Gianelloni (author, August 30, 2006)
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