F10 Preview Release Planning Meeting Recap

[John Poelstra]

2008-10-29
Preview Release Planning Meeting

Invitees:
Spot Callaway -- Fedora Engineering manager (present)
Máirín Duffy -- Art (present)
Dimitris Gelzos -- Translation
Paul Frields -- Fedora Project Leader (present)
Jesse Keating -- Release Engineering (present)
Mike McGrath -- Infrastructure (present)
Bill Nottingham -- Development/FESCo (present)
John Poelstra -- Organizer (present)
Jonathan Roberts -- Marketing
Max Spevack -- Ambassadors (regrets)
Karsten Wade -- Documentation (present)
Will Woods -- Quality Assurance (present)
Ricky Zhou -- Websites (present)


== Meeting Preface ==
o Meeting to make sure we are ready for the Preview Release and 
coordinate across teams as necessary
o While good ideas may come out of this meeting for how to make Fedora 
better we are not here to make policy or process decisions
    --those should be made in individual teams as part of their regular 
decision making process

== Key Points ==
o Meeting was held in record time: 30 minutes
o Open releng ticketes: 
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=Fedora+10+Preview
o Open Infrastructure tickets: 
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/9
o QA & Releng believe we are on track for releasing preview release on 
Tuesday
   --only current issue of concern is a bug about plymouth and encryption
   --F10Preview blocker: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=446449&hide_resolved=1
   --need artwork package preferably today, but no later than tomorrow
o Planning to have release count down graphic ready on Preview Release Day
o Release engineering is accountable for release day announcement, Paul 
volunteered help from the docs group
o Websites team responsible for get.fedoraproject.org--will change name 
from "Beta" to "Preview"
o Reviewed https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/933 and 
confirmed that space considerations are the same
o Docs team will update website with latest version of Install Guide and 
release notes
o Paul is helping with marketing task of loading up USB keys with live 
version of Preview Release and working on distribution via with help 
from Red Hat's PR group.
o Spot spoke in passing about the present number of GA Blocker bugs 
(alias: F10Blocker).  He continues, along with the help of others, to 
keep working this list down
   o F10Blocker: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=438943&hide_resolved=1
   o All NEW rawhide bugs: http://tinyurl.com/6llac8