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[Benedikt Meurer]

On Wed, 18, Jun 2003, Olivier Fourdan wrote:

Hey,

Heres the final plan for BETA2:

> The plan is fairly simple:
> 
> 0) I try building basic tarballs and rpms on my side
> 1) I tag beta2 in CVS
> 2) We give early access to the release team for testing purpose 2 days
> before the actual release.

We have to put the tarballs on some ftp server because of the SF 24hrs
delay. And the release announcement should be prepared now. We should
also notify package maintainers and sent them the url of the temporary
ftp space, so they can prepare packages.

> 3) If all goes well, I release the source, plus rpms for RH 8 and 9 on
> SF.net
> 4) I make the freshmeat annoucenement
> 5) The release team start the communication process
> 
> Anybody ? Anything else ?

This is good for me. Now we have to make clear, who does what? Anybody
willing to organize "topic 5"?

> PS: We have to take the 24 hrs delay in anon CVS. Maybe early access
> would be some ftp server... However, I don't want the "release" to be
> leaked before the end of the process (so we can keep control and change
> things if needed)

I could offer ftp space to put the stuff to.

> Cheers,
> Olivier.

Benedikt

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