Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 35

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:19:01PM +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote:

Preface: We are trying out a new way to spread status reports on the openSUSE distribution, infrastructure and other topics around openSUSE. They are supposed to help facilicate the openSUSE bi-weekly IRC status meeting (scheduled for tomorrow, 2007-08-29, 6pm CEST). As this is the first attempt, we are looking forward to your feedback and suggestions for improvements!

status report: openSUSE distribution, week 35

• 10.3 Beta2 released in time on 2007-08-23, overall feedback quite mixed, there is still a lot of room for improvement
  • hot spots: libzypp, dist upgrade, bootloader config, hal, bundle-lang / translation handling, patterns / cd/package layout.
• no LiveCD for Beta2, due to time constraints
  • Beta3 will hopefully ship a LiveCD from day 0
• a couple of late version updates got approved this week, including MozillaFirefox, MozillaThunderbird, seamonkey, wine, samba, bluez-libs.
  • upgrading a package at this time in the release cycle is going to be very unlikely now.

There are a couple of exceptions to this, that I should have mentioned. The most important ones are: * GNOME (upcoming 2.20) * KDE4

• we are currently preparing for an internal test build, scheduled for 2007-08-29, to get another round of testing for libzypp
• way to many open red bugs: 31 blocker, 103 critical
  • will need to review the critical bugs
  • if there is anything <critical that needs attention, make sure to set NEEDINFO to cthiel or coolo, to get it onto our radar.
• current focus for Beta3:
  • bundle-lang and friends (translations, l10n)
    • a proposal on the language addons is coming up tomorrow
  • patterns / media layout
  • LiveCD
  • libzypp

Is there anything missing? Please let us know, if we are ignoring any hot spots?

Thanks, Christoph