Hi, anonym wrote (09 May 2014 10:38:41 GMT) : > I'll be release manager for the Tails 1.1 release. Here's the > preliminary release schedule:
> 2014-05-28 Feature freeze. > Tag 1.1-rc1 in Git. > Build and upload 1.1-rc1 ISO/IUKs. > 2014-05-29 Test 1.1-rc1. > 2014-05-30 Officially release 1.1-rc1. > [...] tl;dr: I think we should postpone Tails 1.1, release 1.1~beta1 instead in 3 days, 1.0.1 on June 11, and 1.1 on July 22. The current state of the release manager view [1] looks quite concerning at first glance, but things are not *that* bad. I think we're doing pretty well considering how late work on various large tasks was started or resumed. [1] https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/issues?per_page=100&query_id=147 Assuming all branches currently pending review'n'merge are good, our devel branch currently looks like a good 1.1~beta1 to me. * I doubt we'll be able to easily fix the two regressions we've already spotted (#7249 and #7285), even if we were given more time. * The update of the documentation inherited from Incognito (#5977) was already postponed from 1.0, and is not finished yet, but I guess it can be done by June 8, or postponed again with no big harm done. * The Liferea thingie needs more work, but well, worst case, we just don't merge it for 1.1. * I still plan to do enough doc update next week for UEFI support to make sense. The only things that I'm really worried about are: * The lack of a finalized Windows Camouflage mode. * The fact we've been discovering quite a few obvious regressions in the last few weeks, and even days... which makes me think that there's a number of less obvious issues we've not spotted yet. If we release RC1 in 3 days, we'll have about a week to fix all regressions found by early testers. That's not much. So, I'm hereby proposing that we: * Build/test/release 1.1~beta1 on May 28-30 (just as planned, s/rc/beta/) * Advertise the 1.1~beta1 call for testing the best we can. Oh, and test it ourselves quite a bit, too ;) * Release a 1.0.1 point-release, based on Squeeze, on June 11, instead of the planned 1.1 final. * Release 1.1 on July 22 (which probably means a freeze + RC1 during the summit). Incidentally, this would get our release schedule back on tracks with Mozilla's, so that we have a major released planned for October 14, when ESR24 reaches end-of-life and we have to switch to ESR31. And maybe Liferea persistence can be brought to a plausible mergeable state early enough to be reviewed, and improved if needed, for 1.1~rc1. Thoughts? Cheers! -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
