2004.3 Release Information
1.
Goals
With the hopes of finishing off 2004 on a high note, the Release
Engineering team is going to focus on bugfixing and polishing for the 2004.3 release.
Our main focus will be the enhancement and optimization of release media, especially
with regard to the x86 architecture.
In addition to bugfixing, the Release Engineering team is going to be releasing
some technology previews as well. These previews will highlight what is to
come for the 2005 year of release media.
The Release Enginnering team has identified the following key focus areas:
- Smaller, more optimized x86 LiveCDs
- Better control of the release timeline, especially when it comes to uploading
and final QA
- Better control of release information such as changes and bugfixes
since the previous release
2.
2004.3 Information
Release Resources
Release Notes:
md5sums for all release media can be found on the mirrors.
Alternatively, a single text file containing all of the md5sums is
also available.
All release media is signed by the Gentoo Linux Release Engineering (releng@gentoo.org)
PGP key. The public key ID is 17072058, and the key is available through the
subkeys.pgp.net keyserver.
Contacts and Schedule
Contacts:
2004.3 Schedule
| Milestone |
Description |
Deadline |
Status |
| 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. |
October 22th |
Completed |
| Release upload |
All release components are uploaded to the arch release
coordinator's webspace on dev.gentoo.org |
October 29th |
Completed |
| Mirrors are staged |
Releng and Infra will stage the mirrors |
November 1st |
Completed |
| 2004.3 Release |
2004.3 is publically released |
November 15th |
Completed |
Architectures Releasing
The following supported architectures are tentatively releasing 2004.3:
| Architecture |
Subarch(es) |
Expected Components for 2004.3 |
Release Coordinator(s) |
| amd64 |
amd64 |
LiveCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes |
jhuebel |
| ppc |
G3, G4, G5 |
LiveCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes |
pvdabeel |
| sparc |
sparc32, sparc64 |
LiveCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes |
weeve, gustavoz |
| x86 |
x86, athlon-xp, pentium3, pentium4 |
LiveCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes |
beejay |
The following unsupported architectures are tentatively releasing 2004.3:
| Architecture |
Subarch(es) |
Expected Components for 2004.3 |
Release Coordinator(s) |
| alpha |
alpha |
LiveCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes |
kloeri, agriffis |
| arm |
arm |
stages |
vapier |
| hppa |
all supported sub-architectures |
LiveCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes, netboot images |
gmsoft |
| ia64 |
ia64 |
stages |
plasmaroo |
| ppc64 |
power3, power4, power5, PPC970 |
LiveCDs, stages, Release Notes |
tgall |
If information regarding a specific arch is wrong or has been omitted, please
contact the release operations manager.
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