#fedora-meeting-1: F18 Alpha Readiness Meeting

Meeting summary

1. Roll call (jreznik, 19:00:56)
   
2. Purpose of this meeting (jreznik, 19:06:03)
   1. "Before each public release all of the groups participating the development of Fedora's next release meet to make sure the release is well coordinated." (jreznik, 19:06:12)
   2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings (jreznik, 19:06:22)
   3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Alpha_Release_Criteria (jreznik, 19:07:07)
   
   
3. Current status (jreznik, 19:09:18)
   1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-08-22/f18_alpha_gono-go_meeting.2012-08-22-21.00.html (jreznik, 19:10:19)
   2. http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current (jreznik, 19:10:50)
   3. current Fedora 18 Alpha release date is Sep 04 (was Aug 28) (jreznik, 19:11:37)
   
   
4. Ambassadors (jreznik, 19:13:11)
   1. no Ambassadors representative present (jreznik, 19:15:03)
   
   
5. Design (jreznik, 19:15:12)
   1. gnokii finalized the alpha release banners for the website (jreznik, 19:17:24)
   2. the wallpaper is in and thus far we've gotten overwhelmingly positive reviews (jreznik, 19:17:38)
   3. grub2 is turned on in f18 right now, we should make sure it does not by ga (jreznik, 19:20:56)
   4. we have some really high-quality submissions of the supplemental wallpapers, thanks to gnokii! (jreznik, 19:23:36)
   5. kde themes based on F18 Alpha artwork by design team is ready, thanks to mbriza! (jreznik, 19:24:14)
   
   
6. Documentation (jreznik, 19:24:44)
   1. bcotton and suehle1 have been working on the Release Announcement. It will be ready. (bcotton, 19:25:38)
   2. we're rounding up volunteers to put together the alpha Release Notes (bcotton, 19:26:03)
   3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_Alpha_release_announcement (jreznik, 19:27:13)
   
   
7. FESCo (jreznik, 19:27:37)
   1. things are going along fine for release, hopefully FESCo can knock out the blockers in this week (jreznik, 19:29:41)
   
   
8. Fedora Engineering Manager (jreznik, 19:30:04)
   1. spot needs any alpha ready art for fedora-logos asap (jreznik, 19:31:55)
   
   
9. Fedora Project Leader (jreznik, 19:32:08)
   1. no status update by rbergeron but love (jreznik, 19:33:48)
   
   
10. Infrastructure (jreznik, 19:34:00)
    1. everything is looking ready, Infra in change freeze, ready to mirror bits, everything seems to be going along fine with buildsystem, updates, etc. (jreznik, 19:36:06)
    
    
11. Marketing (jreznik, 19:36:45)
    1. the release announcement for alpha is coming along well (jreznik, 19:41:32)
    
    
12. QA (jreznik, 19:42:26)
    1. QA is at alpha tc3, currently working to try and get a tc4 built (jreznik, 19:48:10)
    2. QA doesn't have 100% test coverage because anaconda is too broken (jreznik, 19:48:34)
    3. current coverage has revealed numerous blocker bugs, not all of which are fixed yet (jreznik, 19:48:57)
    
    
13. Release Engineering (jreznik, 19:51:54)
    1. releng should be ready to compose rc1 as soon as/when we fix blockers (jreznik, 19:54:06)
    
    
14. Translation (jreznik, 19:54:33)
    1. no Translation representative present (jreznik, 19:57:06)
    
    
15. Websites (jreznik, 19:57:23)
    1. http://stg.fedoraproject.org/ and (nirik, 20:00:31)
    2. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3429 (nirik, 20:01:09)
    3. http://stg.fedoraproject.org/ (jreznik, 20:01:29)
    4. https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3429 (jreznik, 20:01:37)
    
    
16. Open floor (jreznik, 20:03:48)
    1. The next Go/No-Go meeting has been rescheduled to Thursday, Aug 30 (21:00 UTC, 5 PM EDT) (jreznik, 20:05:50)

Action items

1. (none)

People present (lines said)

1. jreznik (106)
2. mizmo (34)
3. nirik (15)
4. zodbot (8)
5. bcotton (6)
6. rbergeron (6)
7. spot (5)
8. adamw (3)
9. suehle (2)