Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Noé Lopez <[email protected]> skribis:
>
>> This week was the preparations for the release candidate, which we had
>> set a target for today. However some more work needed to be done and the
>> release candidate is not yet ready. We will aim to release it before
>> Christmas.
>>
>> The ungrafting branch was merged thanks to the help of many people
>> outside of the release team. Thanks!
>>
>> We have managed to make AArch64 release artefacts bootable on real
>> hardware!
>
> Congrats to the team and everyone who helped!
>
> I had to check how “hard freeze” is defined in the GCD¹:
>
>   ## Testing and Hard Freeze (week 10)
>   Release Crictical (RC) bugs and issues should be solved for the release 
> branch.
>
>   Only changes that will fix a non-building package, or a RC bug in a
>   package/service are allowed.  Ideally avoid new upstream versions, but it's
>   acceptable to use a new minor upstream version to solve a bug.
>
>   Any non-building packages are deprecated using the Deprecation Policy.  As 
> always,
>   packages can be un-deprecated at a later date.
>
> I think we contributors might need to solicit you, release team, to
> determine whether a given bug is “release critical”, for the non-obvious
> cases.

Thanks for pointing that out. I forgot to talk about it in the e-mail.

>
> Ludo’.
>
> ¹ https://consensus.guix.gnu.org/gcd/005-regular-releases.html

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