Time to go live?

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Thu Mar 15 05:36:30 UTC 2007


Mike McGrath schrieb:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Mike McGrath schrieb:
>>   
>>> We still have mentions of test only and "not meant for public 
>>> consumption"  Should I send an official announcement to the 
>>> announce-list and get this party started?
>>>     
>> I'd say a definite "no" as long as we don't have the "big picture" stuff
>> from the schedule done. E.g.
>>
>> * RHEL5 on the builders
>> * our Package Maintain and Updates policy in place
>> * the final repo layout on the servers
>> * a release rpm-package so people can actually use our stuff
>> * Finish the wiki (remove "This is currently a being worked on and not
>> yet finished" warnings )
>>
>> I'd further prefer to have at least a bit more packages in the repo
>> before announcing it. All that could be done in less then two weeks if
>> we really want...
> Then we need to take the public mirror down or do something with it 
> because people are reading "not ready for public" yet there it is.

I asked dgilmore to put everything in a testing directory to make it
more obvious that EPEL is not live yet. He did that iirc, but it seems
the mirror scripts didn't take it up properly.

CU
thl




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