was: Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 12:03:47PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> It could be either one: A scheduled deadline in the roadmap with a request
> to maintainers to [at least] try rebuilding their packages once in a given
> period. Or a mass-rebuild like those Matt Domsch has done separately, but
> which publishes successful rebuilds in rawhide and collects build failure
> logs somewhere. In either case, I would prefer if the maintainers or
> co-maintainers had to push a button in that procedure. Such an attempt at
> touching/updating packages early, e.g. right in time before test1, is not
> to be understood as a freeze or final rebuild. It's just an event to
> test how many packages still build.

And also have a possibility to test those rebuilt packages before the
release such that some time for testing is left, but it is sufficiently 
late such that the build environment is somehow stabilized.

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Pat