[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.1 release plan. WAS: Poll: 4.02 vs. 4.1 alpha

[Eric Harrison]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 15:39, Huck wrote:
> I am also in your dilema David.
> 
> And as busy as this summer has been thus far I've yet to put much
> thought behind what to do...and your poll has forced me to.
> So I'll be going with what is stable on August 1...because not being a
> guru, I will have a lot of work to do in order to deploy
> this and have it play nicely with my Novell server and all the printers
> and staff and student machines and macs...
> 
> Wow...actually just got off the phone with the VP..and staff report back
> in Aug. 9th...and students Aug 23..
> So...it is very likely that I will start with what is stable as of next
> week =)
> 
> and I'm PRAYING feverently that your Samba/LDAP howto/walkthrough will
> get me through the hard-part =)
> 
> --Huck

The "unstable" part of K12LTSP 4.1 is the LTSP portion. As of later this
afternoon (assuming the test I'm about to do pan out ;-), I'll have a
build uploaded that is close to what the final build will be. Everything
after that will be minor updates/bug fixes. I now have over a dozen
K12LTSP 4.1 alpha-build servers in production, including all of my
desktop at work, home, and my laptop. Riverdale HS has the 4.1
alpha-builds on thirty of their laptops. We've given it a pretty good
workout, so far so good.

I want to have a solid, "probably production-ready" K12LTSP 4.1 beta out
by Friday. That will give me a week to fix any major problems that crop
up. Then I'm on vacation for a week and won't have 'net access, which is
*certain* to test how stable the beta is ;-). If no show-stopping bugs
show up in the LTSP/K12LTSP betas, I'll then declare K12LTSP 4.1 the
current stable release.


-Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
> Behalf Of David Trask
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:46 PM
> To: K12OSN at redhat.com
> Subject: [K12OSN] Poll: 4.02 vs. 4.1 alpha
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm taking a poll to help me make up my mind.  It's getting into the
> summer and I need to make up my mind as to whether to deploy 4.02 or
> wait a week or two and deploy whatever the latest 4.1 happens to be.
> What are others doing?
> 
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
> (207)923-3100
> 

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