On 06/18/2012 03:46 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Monday, June 18, 2012 03:42:49 PM Rodney Dawes wrote: >> Ditën e Mon, 18/06/2012 më 15.30 -0400, Scott Kitterman ka shkruar: >>> On Monday, June 18, 2012 01:30:34 PM Chris Wilson wrote: >>> ... >>> >>>> I also think adding the "Release Candidate (RC)" designation towards the >>>> end of the cycle would encourage more people who are quite wary of >>>> installing pre-release software on their computer to get involved with >>>> last >>>> minute testing since RC indicates that it's pretty much done and all >>>> that's >>>> left is to iron out some minor glitches. >>> >>> ... >>> We used to call what's now Beta 1 a "Release Candidate" for similar >>> reasons, but renamed it because it's not really a release candidate. >>> Generally "Release Candidate" means "Thing that will get released if no >>> new significant issues turn up". Our current usage matches that and we >>> should stick with it. I don't like the idea of turning Release Candidate >>> into a marketing term in order to encourage more testing. >> >> And I think the idea here is that every single daily image fits into >> that category of what we're calling a "Release Candidate." If we >> maintain high quality throughout the cycle, then at any point after >> the higher level freezes (feature, UI, string, etc…) we could >> theoretically point to any image and say "this is the release >> candidate." If we can't do that, then we should at least be able to >> isolate where and why we can't (particular packages not meeting the >> quality standards, introducing problems late in cycle, etc…), and >> work on preventing that from happening in the future. > > Up until the last translation import is finished, we know everything is not a > release candidate. After that, I agree. > > Scott K
We typically need the last batch of outside-of-langpacks translation updates, a new batch of langpacks, a new base-files (for lsb_release), a new ubiquity (dropping any remaining alpha/beta warning) and matching debian-cd change (to actually mark the images as finals). Currently we consider that any of the above (including the debian-cd flag change) require re-testing of the images. -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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