LSB conf call notes for 2008-10-08

Printer-friendly versionWichmann, Darren Davis, Russ Herrold, Robert Schweikert, Jesper Thomschultz, Kay Tate, Jiri Dluhos, Ted Tso, Alexey Khoroshilov 4.0 beta. Alexey: SI tools may be totally overlooked. Jeff: tested? Alexey: against 3.2, not necessarily 4.0. Jeff: will pull in manually if necessary. Ted: will we have to integrate the SI tools with the SI? Alexey: yes, have made a RPM of the SI tarball. Ted: should merge the 4.0 SI with the 4.0 SI tools and do a check to make sure everything works. Should probably do tests on our side as well. Jeff: can Alexey do one set, and I do other? Alexey: yes. Have built a RPM based on the 4.0 SI from yesterday on one architecture. Mats: tagging? We might have a slight moving target, with commits going in during the autobuilds; fixes being checked in during the builds. Ted: not a build from scratch? Mats: a build from scratch, but each build ends at a certain point. Jeff: probably should have tagged before doing the builds. Ted: delay? Jeff: 1 day. Ted: with SI and other stuff, will this actually delay anything. Jeff: were their commits last night? Mats: there were. Stew: core-test, appchk-perl and -python. Mats: dtk-manager. Ted: what needs to be built? Jeff: depends on build order. Stew: all my changes were accompanied with build version bumps, so should be obvious. Mats: maybe should redo the builds; the dtk-manager fix. Jeff: could also add SI tools to builds. Ted: full build? That could add a day and a half. Jeff: depending on how long the SI tools integration takes. Ted: need to get the beta out this week if we can. Worried that much more delay would cut into beta time. Jeff: plan, then, is to use the builds finishing up, rebuild dtk-manager, do si tools and app-checker integration, and release with that. Mats: do we need si and si-tools integration? Ted: if it takes too long, could decouple. Jeff: attention? Brian: press or specific? Jeff: specific. Russ: post to public bug trackers and lists. Jiri: Novell knows; keeps an eye on things. Brian: maybe talk to Mike Wooster; has the best ISV list? Also, do a distro announcement on LDN. Jeff: can do a post to distributions list. Ted: can also use contacts at Red Hat and Ubuntu. Biggest thing to do is draft release notes, specifically what's new. Also, ISV announcement should be targeted at their needs. Mike has volunteered to follow up with ISVs as well. Probably busy until early next week due to End User Summit. Maybe abstract the release notes into three docs: one eah for distros, ISV, and more general press release. Brian: could help with that. When? Jeff: today? Brian: could have some of this tomorrow if the release notes that are done today. Ted: Navigator shows 14 apps that will move into certification, 75 or so very close, so that would be a good thing to point out in the press release. Russ: Certification? Ted: this will be key to do next year. Russ: going through ChipHopper; if the LSB cert is part of ChipHopper, that should be made more clear. Want to work more closely with companies with ISV teams like ChipHopper. Russ: do we want to get those figured out? Ted: is happening. Agree that we should do this. Brian: should we schedule Mike for working on LSB stuff after the Summit? Ted: yes.