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
Information
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 17072058, 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:
| Milestone | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| QA testing | Release components have been thoroughly tested in accordance with the QA guidelines. At least one test release has been made by this time by each architecture. | Complete |
| Release upload | All release components are uploaded to the arch release coordinator's webspace on dev.gentoo.org | Complete |
| Mirrors are staged | RelEng and Infra will stage the mirrors | Complete |
| 2005.0 release | 2005.0 is publicly released | Complete |
Architectures releasing
The following supported architectures are tentatively releasing 2005.0:
| Architecture | Subarch(es) | Expected components for 2005.0 | Release coordinator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| alpha | alpha | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | kloeri, agriffis |
| amd64 | amd64 | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | jhuebel |
| ppc | G3, G4, G5 | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | pylon |
| ppc64 | ppc64 | InstallCDs, stages | tgall |
| sparc | sparc32, sparc64 | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | weeve, gustavoz |
| x86 | x86, athlon-xp, pentium3, pentium4 | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | beejay |
The following unsupported architectures are tentatively releasing 2005.0:
| Architecture | Subarch(es) | Expected components for 2005.0 | Release coordinator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ia64 | ia64 | stages | plasmaroo |
If information regarding a specific arch is wrong or has been omitted, please contact the release operations manager.
This page is based on a document formerly found on our main website gentoo.org.
The following people contributed to the original document: Chris Gianelloni (author, April 16, 2005)
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