[ubuntu-studio-devel] check-in and reminder release candidate on April 6th

[Ross Gammon]

Thanks Eylul - you must have read my mind!

On 29/03/17 20:43, eylul wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Zesty release is right around the corner and we will have release
> candidates out starting April 6th. Where are we with things? Who do we
> have available to test the week of April 6th/13th?
>
> Best
>
> Eylul

I am afraid I have availability problems for this particular release 
week. I might have some time on the 6th to test the first Release 
Candidate. And I should be back on the 13th to try and help with the 
release, but with no guarantee that I will have much time to spare.

So it would be great to have some volunteers for testing one or two of 
the days during that week. Please reply to this message if you can, 
otherwise we might need to inform the Ubuntu Release Team that we would 
like to defer our release until after the Easter Holidays.

There are also some tasks that I am aware of that we could be doing this 
week to help prepare for a good release.

Release:
We could prepare some release notes based on the last release 
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio), and the 
Final Beta release 
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/Beta2/UbuntuStudio). Then they would 
only need a final tweak and check on the day of the release (updating 
known bugs & package versions).

Development:
1. Len did some excellent work on ubuntustudio-controls this cycle, but 
we needed to revert back to something like the state it was at Revision 
128. I tried to do this, but may have made some mistakes (r130). It 
crashed when I tested it, and I haven't had time to get back on it. It 
may be too late to get a freeze exception for this, but if someone was 
keen to try.........
2. There has been a mass rebuild of the archive, and there are a few 
build failures of our packages that someone could look into:
http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/ftbfs/rebuilds/test-rebuild-20170322.1-zesty.html#ubuntustudio
http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/ftbfs/#ubuntustudio

Testing:
1. No-one from the team (that I am aware of) did any real testing of the 
Final Beta, so the Ubuntu Release Team asked that we give the daily ISOs 
a good bash between now and the release:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/369/builds
2. We could do with a smoke test of our important applications. There 
are test cases that can be used here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/370/builds
Testing
Please submit a bug if you find something bad, and let us know. Please 
also record your results if you found no problems, then others can 
decide to concentrate on untested ones if they are short of time.

Bugs:
Lots of people have already reported bugs against our packages:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs/+packagebugs
Feel free to triage some of these bugs to see if any of our packages 
contain serious bugs, and let us know. There is some advice here for 
triaging bugs in Launchpad:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Triage/

I hope we can all "muck in" and make it a good release!

Cheers,

Ross

PS: I have probably forgotten something. Oh yeah - is there someone 
around from the website team to blog about the release once it happens?