Alpha 2 -- help needed

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Thanks for clarifying, Simon. Have a wonderful New Year celebration,
everyone.

On Dec 30, 2016 8:31 PM, "Simon Quigley" <tsimonq2 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> On 12/30/2016 01:41 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> > Hi folks, you might notice that we didn't have an Alpha 1 out today.
> > That was partly because our packages aren't published and ready to go,
> > and the other is that none of the other flavors were ready either.
>
> (with the exception of Ubuntu Kylin, which wanted to participate but
> didn't step
> up to coordinate)
>
> > Or, perhaps they didn't want to do all that extra work. Because I've
> > never been involved in releasing before, I didn't realize that "The
> > community flavors that choose to release alpha milestones (and the
> > beta-1 milestone) are responsible for finding the resources to make
> > these milestones happen. In general, releases will not happen without
> > volunteers."
>
> Usually either someone from Lubuntu or Ubuntu MATE steps up, nobody seemed
> to do
> so this time.
>
> > The page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityMilestoneProcess says that
> > "tasks need to be performed by someone with shell access to the image
> > building machine or someone on the Ubuntu release team.
>
> I don't think there's someone who has access that isn't on the release
> team (or
> at the very minimum, Canonical's Ubuntu Foundations team).
>
> > * Final publishing
> > * Setting up the ISO tracker
> > * Handling blocks & unblocks"
> >
> > In addition, "Flavour release teams are responsible for ensuring their
> > images get rebuilds when required if a global rebuild is not
> > occurring" and "Collect any release note URLs from flavours that want
> > to provide them,"  "Make sure all flavours have their images marked as
> > ready before release day," "Prepare and send release announcement to
> > ubuntu-devel-announce with a cc to ubuntu-release, " and "Be
> > responsive on IRC."
> >
> > Some of us should sign up to do some of these jobs, none of which I
> > ever thought of!
>
> I've done this before myself, I've done it with someone before to make
> sure I
> have the process right, and I even taught someone else how. It's really not
> something a team of people does (at least in my experience), unless the
> person
> put on the signup sheet delegates. So I would discourage people from doing
> random things on that list before talking to the person signed up to do it.
>
> The release task signup page is available here:
>   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseTaskSignup
>
> Typically people put on this list are limited to release managers for
> flavors (I
> haven't really seen anyone else on there, and it's a "rule of thumb") so
> unfortunately it doesn't look like many people from here can do this. If
> you
> look at that page, I put my name down for Beta 1 and I plan on completing
> the
> milestone tasks on that date.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions, and hopefully this clears up
> some
> confusion! :)
>
> --
> Simon Quigley
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