On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 11:22 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> In response to Patrick's request for status updates, I'm posting the
> current Release Engineering status.
> 
> Release Engineering is well into doing QA and testing for 2005.1 on x86,
> amd64, ppc, ppc64, ia64, and alpha.  We are currently testing a new
> version of livecd-tools, catalyst, and genkernel, all of which are
> masked in the tree.  We have been on a massive bug-squashing session to
> try to solve any problems before we start building the final release.

I forgot to mention that sparc is also doing their QA.

> Once we work out the few blocking issues we are reaching now, such as
> the perl->ssl issue Robin was talking about, then we will build a "beta"
> release for 2005.1, which we will start selecting groups of users,
> mostly people who filed bugs against 2005.0, to help us with testing,
> specifically on platforms or hardware which we do not possess ourselves.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux