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[Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfeffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Blueprint changed by Zach Pfeffer:

Whiteboard changed:
  Agenda:
  * current release process - what's the current process?
  * release internals - how the release works?
  * the road to continuous integration - how the CI is going to transform the release?
  
- 
- Notes from LDS
- 
+ [zpfeffer 2011/10/31] Notes from LDS:
  Current Release Process
  
  Monthly
  Last Thursday of the month
  
  How do we decide what goes into the release?
  
  How do we communicate which patches have landed?
-     Track which patches have actually landed in the tip?
-     
+     Track which patches have actually landed in the tip?
+ 
  CI works if we fix things when they break
-     Android has to rebase each day for some repos, kernel gets rebased
+     Android has to rebase each day for some repos, kernel gets rebased
  
  Need to track Linus-HEAD and Deepak-HEAD
  
  AI: Deepak: What does Linux Linaro's kernel need to be
  AI: Ricardo: Discuss Linus HEAD, Linus NEXT
  AI: <platform team>: kernel flows docs
- AI: Zach: 
+ AI: Zach:
  AI: Deepak: Will look at each kernel that we ship and say which patches made it in
  
  Release Internals
  
  Planning, Post-mortum
-    Essential and High and committed to be delivered
+    Essential and High and committed to be delivered
  
  BPs used in status.linaro.org
  
  Alexander
-    A few things
-       Planning takes too long
-           Expectation: Post-mortum on Friday 23:59 UTC
-               Plan is available on Monday UTC 23:59
-               You should have the backlog sorted by priority
-           Should happen on Mumble not IRC
+    A few things
+       Planning takes too long
+           Expectation: Post-mortum on Friday 23:59 UTC
+               Plan is available on Monday UTC 23:59
+               You should have the backlog sorted by priority
+           Should happen on Mumble not IRC
  
-     QA Testing
-         Happens on release
-         Android has a QA engineer
-         Need to test components
-         Components needed
-         Release checkpoint shipped along with components
+     QA Testing
+         Happens on release
+         Android has a QA engineer
+         Need to test components
+         Components needed
+         Release checkpoint shipped along with components
  
  AI: asac: will drive test standardization across the industry.
  
  CI
  
  Android is here, need to get Ubuntu there
- Disk space issues, staging PPA and 
+ Disk space issues, staging PPA and
  
  AI: Ricardo: Need disk space
  AI: component release testing
  AI: Paul: Fix deployment and roleout
  AI: Paul: Need smoke tests and ability to back out
  AI: Ricardo and Zach: File bugs

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Linaro release process improvements
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-project-management/+spec/linaro-general-release-process-improvements-lcq4.11