Release Engineering

1. Project Description

Release Engineering ("releng") is the official Gentoo project focused on coordinating and improving the creation of official media releases of Gentoo Linux and other Gentoo operating systems. It is also primarily responsible for many of the tools used by the installation process, including catalyst, genkernel, and the Gentoo Linux Installer.

2. Project Goals

The goals of Release Engineering are to continually improve the quality, timeliness and overall procedures for creating official Gentoo Linux releases, as well as acting as the official coordinators for creating new Gentoo Linux release media. This project is very much focused on ensuring that the initial quality of every official release is as high as possible, and that the "from CD" experience is as positive for as many of our users as possible.

3. Developers

Developer	Nickname	Role
Andrew Gaffney	agaffney	Lead ( Team Lead )
Andrew Gaffney	agaffney	Member ( x86 Release Coordinator )
Christoph Mende	angelos	Member ( AMD64 Release Coordinator )
Raúl Porcel	armin76	Member ( IA64/SPARC Release Coordinator )
Tobias Scherbaum	dertobi123	Member ( HPPA Release Coordinator )
Mike Doty	kingtaco	Member ( AMD64 Release Co-Coordinator )
Tobias Klausmann	klausman	Member ( Alpha Release Coordinator )
Joshua Kinard	kumba	Member ( MIPS Release Coordinator )
Joshua Saddler	nightmorph	Member ( Documentation Liaison )
Christian Heim	phreak	Member ( Hardended Liaison/Release Coordinator )
Peter Volkov	pva	Member ( Security Liaison )
Brent Baude	ranger	Member ( PowerPC Release Coordinator )
Stuart Longland	redhatter	Member ( MIPS Stages )
Robin H. Johnson	robbat2	Member ( Infrastructure Liaison )
Ben de Groot	yngwin	Member ( PR Liaison )

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

4. Subprojects

The releng project has the following subprojects:

Project	Lead	Description
Catalyst		This project develops the catalyst tool, which is used to build official Gentoo stage tarballs, PackageCD and InstallCD and LiveCD images.
Installer	Preston Cody	The Gentoo Installer project aims to create a widely extensible install engine that allows for a diverse set of attended and un-attended install options.
Releng/QA Hardware		Release Engineering maintains its own set of hardware for development, testing and release building, as well as the porting of Gentoo Linux to new architectures. Currently, this hardware consists of a dual-CPU 900Mhz zx6000 Itanium 2 system with 4GB of RAM on extended loan from HP, and a dual Opteron AMD64 system built from parts donated by AMD, NVIDIA, The Gentoo Foundation, and the Gentoo/AMD64 project. All systems are running Gentoo Linux. Access to these is currently restricted to Release Engineering members. For other developer hardware, check out the dev machines page.

5. Latest release

The latest release of Gentoo Linux is:

Gentoo Linux 2008.0 for Alpha, AMD64, HPPA, IA64, MIPS, PPC, S390, SH, SPARC, and x86 architectures.

6. Next Release

The next official release of Gentoo Linux will be Gentoo Linux 2008.1.

7. Release Roadmap for 2008

Note: These are estimated dates. Actual release dates may vary.

Date	Version	Phase
Jul 2008	2008.0	Released, Release Information, Press Release
Sep 2008	2008.1	Not Released, Release Information, Press Release

8. Previous Releases

Date	Version	Phase
Dec 2007	2007.1	Cancelled, Release Information, Press Release
May 2007	2007.0	Released, Release Information, Press Release
Aug 2006	2006.1	Released, Release Information, Press Release
Feb 2006	2006.0	Released, Release Information, Press Release
Aug 2005	2005.1	Released, Release Information, Press Release
Mar 2005	2005.0	Released, Release Information, Press Release
November 2004	2004.3	Released, Release Information, Press Release
July 2004	2004.2	Released, Release Information, Press Release
April 2004	2004.1	Released, Release Information, Press Release
February 2004	2004.0	Released, Release Information, Press Release
Sept 2003	1.4 maintenance release 1	Released
July 2003	1.4	Released