[debian-devel:10863] Re: FREEZE RESCHEDULED

["Katsura S. Yoshio" <shishamo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

芳尾です。
devel-announce@lists. debian.org にで、braakman がアナウンスしてたんで
すが、
フリーズは 1 月中旬まで延期になるそうです。
主に Boot Floopies の遅れによるものだそうです。

ではでは。 ---- Yours, K.S.Yoshio
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From: Richard Braakman <dark@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: FREEZE RESCHEDULED
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:19:36 +0100
Message-ID: <19991107131936.A1352@xxxxxxxxx>

> I was too hasty when declaring this freeze.  Adam di Carlo assured me that
> the boot-floppies are just not ready yet, and won't be for a number of
> weeks even if they get help.  Also, the count of release-critical bugs
> is going back up as fast as it came down.  (I think that many of them
> are not really release-critical, but there are so many that just
> evaluating them takes a significant amount of time.)
> 
> I hoped that a week or two of old-style freeze could get potato in
> shape in time for a mid-December release, but it's just not going to
> happen.
> 
> Adam says that the boot-floppies can be ready for freezing on December
> 1st, and of release-quality on January 1st, and that those dates are
> somewhat optimistic.
> 
> I think that freezing on either of those dates is not useful, due to the
> winter festivities and the end of the world.  I'm rescheduling the
> freeze for mid-January, the weekend of the 15th and 16th.  This will
> be a freeze according to the original plan for potato, with all the
> pieces ready beforehand and a fast track to a release in February.
> 
> Please keep this freeze date in mind; don't start anything that you
> can't finish before that time.  In particular, with library upgrades
> and package reorganizations, keep in mind that other packages will
> have to be recompiled.  I'll ask the archive maintainers to actually
> hold back such packages starting around December 20th.
> 
> The good news is that James and I spent a day processing most of
> Incoming in preparation for the freeze (and I apologize to James for
> not actually freezing after all that), so the backlog is now gone.
> 
> In the meantime, the boot-floppies NEED HELP.  If you want to get
> involved, you can check out their code with this command:
>   cvs -d youraccount@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot co boot-floppies
> Make sure that CVS_RSH is set to ssh.
> 
> The mailing list for coordination is debian-boot; CVS update messages
> are also sent there.  The bug reports are collected under the
> package name "boot-floppies".
> 
> Richard Braakman
> 
> 
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