Project:RelEng/LiveCD/2005.1
This guide serves as the definitive source for all 2005.1 information.
Goals
The primary goal of 2005.1 is to improve the quality of the Gentoo release media by including more drivers. We are also looking to improve the quality of the build over the last release, which is a recurring goal with every release.
Information
Release resources
Release notes:
- Alpha release notes
- AMD64 release notes
- HPPA 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 0x17072058, and the key is available through the subkeys.pgp.net keyserver.
Contacts and schedule
Contacts:
- Release Operations: Tim Yamin
- Public Relations: Alex Howells
- 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 |
| Official snapshot | The official portage freeze is completed. From this point forward, only bug fixes are introduced into the release tree that affect the release. | Complete |
| Final QA | After the successful build of the release materials, a final "once over" is given to each piece of the release materials to test functionality and correctness. | 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 |
| 2005.1 release | 2005.1 is publicly released | Complete |
Architectures releasing
The following supported architectures are tentatively releasing 2005.1:
| Architecture | Subarch(es) | Expected components for 2005.1 | Release coordinator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| alpha | alpha | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | kloeri, agriffis |
| amd64 | amd64 | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | kugelfang |
| hppa | hppa1.1, hppa2.0 | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | dertobi123 |
| ppc | G4, ppc | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | pylon |
| ppc64 | ppc64, G5, power3, power4, power5 | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | tgall, ranger, dostrow |
| sparc | sparc32, sparc64 | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | gustavoz, weeve |
| x86 | x86, athlon-xp, pentium3, pentium4 | InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes | beejay |
The following unsupported architectures are tentatively releasing 2005.1:
| Architecture | Subarch(es) | Expected components for 2005.1 | Release coordinator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| arm | arm, armv4l | Stages, netboot images | vapier |
| ia64 | ia64 | Stages, InstallCDs | plasmaroo |
| s390 | s390 | Stages | vapier |
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, December 1, 2005)
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