Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 04.06.2007 07:21, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora at leemhuis.info) said: 
>> Rough Example: Ship test3; get the tree release-ready for two or three
>> weeks later. Create the release directories on the servers and issue a
>> RC from them with ISOs. Spread them; if important bugs are found: Fix
>> them in a rolling release scheme. One or two weeks later issue the real
>> release and freeze the repos; all updates from now on get into the
>> update repo.
> Seems disruptive from a mirror standpoint

Why precisely?

The files in the release dir could simply be hardlinked to rawhide when
the release directories gets created for the first time. Then the mirror
should get them in some minutes without much pain.

> [...]

CU
thl