Project:RelEng/LiveCD/2005.0

This guide serves as the definitive source for all 2005.0 information.

Goals
Following up on the highly successful 2004.3 release, the Release Engineeing team is taking steps into new directions for 2005. The main focus of this release is to continue to improve the quality of our release media, and also to explore some new possibilities with our media.

Several architectures will be creating lots of new release media, which will be available as experimental media.

The Release Engineering team has identified the following key focus areas:


 * Smaller InstallCD images
 * Improved QA processes
 * Improved inter-architecture cooperation
 * Single Snapshot across all architectures

Release resources
Release notes:


 * Alpha release notes
 * AMD64 release notes
 * IA-64 release notes
 * PPC release notes
 * PPC64 release notes
 * SPARC release notes
 * x86 release notes

There will be md5sums for all release media on the Gentoo mirrors.

All release media will be signed by the Gentoo Linux Release Engineering (releng@gentoo.org) PGP key. The public key ID is, and the key is available through the subkeys.pgp.net keyserver.

Contacts and schedule
Contacts:


 * Release Operations: Chris Gianelloni
 * Public Relations/Documentation: Sven Vermeulen
 * Infrastructure: Jeff Forman

Schedule:

Architectures releasing
The following supported architectures are tentatively releasing 2005.0:

The following unsupported architectures are tentatively releasing 2005.0:

If information regarding a specific arch is wrong or has been omitted, please contact the release operations manager.