Thanks Eylul - you must have read my mind!
On 29/03/17 20:43, eylul wrote:
Hi!
Zesty release is right around the corner and we will have release
candidates out starting April 6th. Where are we with things? Who do we
have available to test the week of April 6th/13th?
Best
Eylul
I am afraid I have availability problems for this particular release
week. I might have some time on the 6th to test the first Release
Candidate. And I should be back on the 13th to try and help with the
release, but with no guarantee that I will have much time to spare.
So it would be great to have some volunteers for testing one or two of
the days during that week. Please reply to this message if you can,
otherwise we might need to inform the Ubuntu Release Team that we would
like to defer our release until after the Easter Holidays.
There are also some tasks that I am aware of that we could be doing this
week to help prepare for a good release.
Release:
We could prepare some release notes based on the last release
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio), and the
Final Beta release
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/Beta2/UbuntuStudio). Then they would
only need a final tweak and check on the day of the release (updating
known bugs & package versions).
Development:
1. Len did some excellent work on ubuntustudio-controls this cycle, but
we needed to revert back to something like the state it was at Revision
128. I tried to do this, but may have made some mistakes (r130). It
crashed when I tested it, and I haven't had time to get back on it. It
may be too late to get a freeze exception for this, but if someone was
keen to try.........
2. There has been a mass rebuild of the archive, and there are a few
build failures of our packages that someone could look into:
http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/ftbfs/rebuilds/test-rebuild-20170322.1-zesty.html#ubuntustudio
http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/ftbfs/#ubuntustudio
Testing:
1. No-one from the team (that I am aware of) did any real testing of the
Final Beta, so the Ubuntu Release Team asked that we give the daily ISOs
a good bash between now and the release:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/369/builds
2. We could do with a smoke test of our important applications. There
are test cases that can be used here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/370/builds
Testing
Please submit a bug if you find something bad, and let us know. Please
also record your results if you found no problems, then others can
decide to concentrate on untested ones if they are short of time.
Bugs:
Lots of people have already reported bugs against our packages:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs/+packagebugs
Feel free to triage some of these bugs to see if any of our packages
contain serious bugs, and let us know. There is some advice here for
triaging bugs in Launchpad:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Triage/
I hope we can all "muck in" and make it a good release!
Cheers,
Ross
PS: I have probably forgotten something. Oh yeah - is there someone
around from the website team to blog about the release once it happens?
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