[Mageia-dev] ANN: Help us to make Mageia 3 a successfull release

Wed Jan 9 11:35:45 CET 2013

Dear fellow packagers
+
+Some important information for coming weeks, until final release:
+
+- See new planning as already mentionned in a previous mail
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_3_development#Development_Planning
+We will start to work on Beta 2 isos this we.
+
+- version freeze: it's planned for tonight. It means no new version will 
+be allowed after. Only release updates can be done. If you want to see 
+an exception for version freeze please mail here why we should accept it
+
+- mass rebuild: it will start after version freeze is on. pterjan will 
+inform you about it. It should take about one day to have all rebuilt, 
+increasing release number first.
+As a reminder have a look on http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/autobuild/ for 
+the results.
+
+************************
+After proposal during yesterdays meeting, all packages that failed to 
+rebuild and not fixed before final release will be removed from distro. 
+Please help us to review them even if you are not the maintainer.
+************************
+
+- release critical bugs: have a look on 
+https://bugs.magleia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=P1
+
+What is a release critical bug ?  We could define it as a bug that makes 
+official iso hardly usable and that cannot be fixed through further 
+updates.
+
+This list will be reviewed every week until final release. This is 
+important to avoid fixing it 2 weeks before in a hurry (which happened 
+in both previous releases). We will poke packagers and testers so that 
+we can get some fix quite quickly.
+
+Again happy new year 2013, keep on the good work !
+
+Cheers
+
+-- 
+Anne
+http://mageia.org
+