Thanks Eylul & Len. Just back from my travels and I see the tests are marked ready, and the release notes prepared!
I will probably still give the ISOs a spin - probably be a while before the release is official. Will also go over the Release Notes. Cheers, Ross On 04/13/2017 01:26 AM, eylul wrote: > Quick update: behind testing, but the release notes are up. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio feel free > to add, remove, edit, etc to make sure we didn't miss any other changes. > > Also, got in touch with Set about the website, both Krytarik and I have > administrator access, so we should be able to post tomorrow or when needed. > > Thanks. > > Best > > Eylul > > > On 04/02/2017 11:52 AM, Ross Gammon wrote: >> On 03/31/2017 10:36 AM, eylul wrote: >>> I will be around for testing April 11,12,13th, and will be available in >>> chatroom the (european) evenings during that time. Will probably try to >>> do some more tests before that too if I can. >>> >>> I'll also start the notes so that we can all add items on it. (nag me if >>> it is not done by next tuesday). (unfortunately probably not much help >>> on development side tasks). >> Thanks for volunteering for that. It can easily be forgotten in the rush >> of testing the ISO images. >> >>> we should probably also email users ML to see if there is anybody who >>> can help us test there as well. :) >> Done - just now >> >>> On 03/30/2017 01:56 PM, Ross Gammon wrote: >>>> 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. >> [...] >> >>>> 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......... >> Prepared & waiting for the Release Team to confirm the Freeze Exception. >> We should maybe ping them on IRC next week. >> >>>> 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! >> Do we have someone to man the website & blog about the release? >> >> Also, our support for the Ubuntu Studio Trusty 14.04 (LTS) release ends >> with the release of 17.04 (3 years). We should announce this here, the >> users list and on the website ahead of time. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ross >> > > -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel