Miscellaneous Business

Sivan Green was interested in talking about the newly brainstormed Documentation and Accessibility teams but, due to the business of the upcoming release, this was postponed until the next meeting.

That said, Mark Shuttleworth noted that he did not see mention of Enrico Zini in the webpages on the wiki that Sivan had put together and wanted to make sure that Enrico stayed in the loop on this.

The work then moved on to non-Community Council discussion of the release candidate due the next day.

Release Status Work

Matt Zimmerman announced that things looked on track and in good shape for the Warty Warthog release candidate scheduled to be pushed out the next day.

The one major qualification was that there was still at least one major bug in the Live CD and even if a fix was on time, there would be no time to debug the Live CD.

In reagard to the main release, Mark Shuttleworth asked, "would we like the RC to be good enough to be a release if we get no new major reports?" Matt Zimmerman replied that he would very much like this but that we should wait to see what initial reactions are to the release candidate are before there is any more talk about making the RC the final release.

Colin Watson pointed out that, "the installation manual is still very raw; I've made a fair effort at branding it, but it's very recent and few people have looked at it." Conensus was that this should be fine because the installation manual is not shipped on the CD itself.

The major remaining issue was the new artwork which had to get in but was being worked on by Jeff Waugh and others.

USB keyboard also seemed to be a sticking point but those problems were particularly difficult to debug and required a lot of back and forth between the developer (Herbert Xu in this case) and the user. They may not be within scope for an on-time Warty release.

Matt added that, "another bug currently marked RC is the lack of a local copy of the default browser start page," but that he didn't feel "particularly RC about that one today."

Mark Shuttleworth then pointed people to the release process wiki page.

In terms of the process and the decisions about the release, Mark added, "let's let the tech board decide when it's ready to go, CC just needs to agree the process."

The process that was decided upon called for a release that got a solid 8 hours of testing after quick announcements on both the ubuntu-users and ubuntu-devel mailing lists.

Much of the rest of the discussion was the specifics of what the hardware and the bandwidth could and could not do in terms of serving out many copies of the ISO when it is released and what sort of arrangement and strategy needed to be worked out with the mirrors.