Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> Below you will find a list of topics that we'd like to go over in the next 
> RelEng meeting that is scheduled for tomorrow, Monday at 1700 UTC in 
> #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.org:
> 
> /topic RELENG-Meeting - Rawhide spam-o-matic - JesseKeating
> 
> /topic RELENG-Meeting - Updates Policy - JesseKeating
> 
> /topic RELENG-Meeting - Freeze Policy - JesseKeating
> 
> /topic RELENG-Meeting - Flesh out SOPs for rel-eng tasks - JesseKeating
> 
> /topic RELENG-Meeting - Open Discussion
> 
> You want something to be discussed? Send a note to the list in reply to
> this mail and I'll add it to the schedule (I can't promise we will get
> to it tomorrow, but we'll most likely will if we don't run out of time).
> You can also propose topics in the meeting while it is in the "Open 
> Discussion" phase.

I would like rel eng to discuss a few things

Torrent only release
--------------------

I remember this was discussed before but when a new release is made and 
we are waiting for the mirrors to sync why not do a torrent only release 
immediately?

The advantage is that we won't suffer as much from infrastructure and 
mirror problems with the mad rush in everybody trying to get it at the 
same time. Not sure if this has any disadvantages.

Supported live upgrade from last test to general release
---------------------------------------------------------

This was agreed upon for Fedora 7 test 4 in QA meetings but we didn't 
actually announce it. It would encourage us to be more careful in 
pushing out any updates after the last test release and it would 
encourage more people to try it out the development branch and provide 
us feedback.

Rahul