Fedora Release Engineering Meeting - 2009-05-04
Preview Release
Known issues:
- PPC had a variety of issues
- oversized
- installed the wrong kernel
- failed to install a bootloader
- assorted anaconda partitioning issues
Discussed maybe using a separate config for PPC to keep it under size constraints, but it was decided to stay with one.
Deltarpm for F11
Work needs done to either compose updates in a chroot (which has the F11 deltarpm support) or to backport it to the OS release used to generate updates. Seth Vidal is going to investigate which of these makes more sense. Given the timeframe, this is tight for F11 final. rawhide will continue to have deltas, as that's a separate compose process.
F12 schedule
The schedule proposed by John Poelstra for Fedora 12 in https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/1271 was reviewed. The following changes were approved:
- the alpha milestone was removed entirely
- due to conferences such as the Red Hat Summit, LinuxCon, and Linux Plumber's Conference, each milestone from 'Final freeze: development' (2009-09-15) should be shifted out one week.
This pushes GA from 2009-10-27 to 2009-11-03. The schedule will be presented for FESCo discussion at the 2009-05-08 meeting.