2006.0 Release Information
1.
Goals
The primary goal of 2006.0 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.
2.
2006.0 Information
Release Resources
Release Notes:
There will be md5sums 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:
2006.0 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 |
| 2006.0 Release |
Infrastructure performs the final commit on PR items
and makes the release materials live. 2006.0 is publically
released. |
Completed |
Architectures Releasing
The following supported architectures are tentatively releasing
2006.0:
| Architecture |
Subarch(es) |
Expected Components for 2006.0 |
Release Coordinator(s) |
| alpha |
alpha |
InstallCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes |
kloeri, agriffis |
| amd64 |
amd64 |
InstallCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes |
kugelfang |
| hppa |
hppa1.1, hppa2.0 |
InstallCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes |
dertobi123 |
| ppc |
G4, ppc |
InstallCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes |
pylon |
| ppc64 |
ppc64, G5, power3, power4, power5 |
InstallCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes |
ranger, dostrow |
| sparc |
sparc32, sparc64 |
InstallCDs, stages, GRP, Release Notes |
gustavoz, weeve |
| x86 |
x86, i586, i686 |
InstallCD, stages, LiveCD, Release Notes |
wolf31o2 |
The following unsupported architectures are tentatively releasing
2006.0:
| Architecture |
Subarch(es) |
Expected Components for 2006.0 |
Release Coordinator(s) |
| arm |
arm, armv4l |
stages, netboot images |
vapier |
| ia64 |
ia64 |
InstallCDs, stages, Release Notes |
plasmaroo |
| mips |
mips |
LiveCD, stages, netboot images |
Kumba |
| s390 |
s390 |
stages |
vapier |
If information regarding a specific architecture is wrong or has
been omitted, please contact the release operations manager.
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