19:00:53 #startmeeting F21 Beta Readiness Meeting 19:00:53 Meeting started Thu Oct 23 19:00:53 2014 UTC. The chair is jreznik. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 19:00:53 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 19:00:54 #meetingname f21-beta-readiness-meeting 19:00:54 The meeting name has been set to 'f21-beta-readiness-meeting' 19:01:10 #topic Purpose of this meeting 19:01:11 #info "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." 19:01:12 #link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings 19:01:14 #topic Roll Call 19:01:22 .hello kevin 19:01:23 nirik: kevin 'Kevin Fenzi' 19:01:33 * pingou lurking 19:01:36 .hello pingou 19:01:37 pingou: pingou 'Pierre-YvesChibon' 19:01:51 Hi everybody, good afternoon, evening, morning - whatever you have right now :) 19:01:56 .fas eischmann 19:01:58 sesivany: eischmann 'Jiri Eischmann' 19:02:02 .fas gnokii 19:02:03 gnokii: gnokii 'Sirko Kemter' 19:02:11 remember, we have readiness badge - if you don't have your badge yet, you have a chance! 19:02:23 #link https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/readiness 19:02:32 oh shiny :) 19:02:53 pingou: by gnokii! 19:03:29 a few folks apologized they can't come today, let's start - I'll try to ping folks during this meeting 19:03:35 #topic Current status 19:04:39 F21 Beta is currently no-go as we don't have release candidate, but ticket is filled and we will try to repeat Go/No-go meeting tomorrow to avoid one week slip as holidays are getting closer 19:05:09 if anyone can help with release validation - QA guys would be happy for every single hand! 19:05:19 * jreznik will try to help as much as possible 19:05:36 * sesivany will help too 19:05:37 I will send announcement right after this meeting 19:06:11 #topic Ambassadors 19:06:19 sesivany: you can help now too :) 19:06:22 your turn 19:06:55 we're pretty much ready. The only missing thing I can think of are artworks for F21 media. 19:07:13 but that's something we will need like a week before the final release. 19:07:26 inkscaper should be working on it already. 19:07:27 it's more final thing but I will create ticket tomorrow, better to have it earlier - gnokii just heads up 19:07:38 ok 19:07:58 #link https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/337 19:08:14 just one question not related completely to release but how does it look like with Council nomination? 19:08:33 ah, you created ticket, thanks! 19:08:52 jreznik: FAmSCo nominated cwickert and we asked the marketing and design teams to nominate their candidates. 19:09:24 but there has been no response so far, so it's just cwickert now. 19:09:44 ok, in the end it seems like we could do all elections in one time, just asking as I saw this question from jwb in board ticket 19:10:11 anything else? :) 19:10:41 not really, just that we will send out the call for F21 release events soon. 19:10:57 we're ready for the beta. 19:11:18 https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/lets-have-a-party-fedora-21 19:11:35 #info Ambassadors ready for beta, media artwork ticket created, release parties call will be sent soon 19:11:48 #topic Design 19:12:10 gnokii: you or ryan? mizmo told me I can ping one of you 19:12:58 banners done, wallpaper not 100% done, but we can go without it and push it as an update, so we are ready 19:13:47 #info banners done, wallpaper not 100% done but will be pushed as update 19:14:09 are there any other beta requests on design team from anyone? 19:14:56 seems like not now, moving on, thanks gnokii! 19:15:07 #topic Documentation 19:15:43 randomuser: are you around? 19:17:20 * roshi is here late 19:17:39 (sorry, got distracted tracking down a bug - I'm standing in for jzb for mktg) 19:17:55 moving on, will ping docs guys but from what I know coverage of release notes is pretty good 19:18:11 #topic FESCo 19:18:29 nirik: anything from FESCo for Beta? 19:18:37 should be good to go... nothing blocking beta. 19:19:09 #info nothing is blocking Beta from FESCo 19:19:14 thanks nirik! 19:19:26 #topic Fedora Engineering Manager 19:19:58 stickster told me he's going to miss today's meeting -> skipping 19:20:11 #topic Fedora Project Leader 19:21:02 * jreznik does not see mattdm online, will contact him offline 19:21:12 #topic Marketing 19:21:46 jzb: any chance you're near computer? jzb told me he's going to be out 19:21:53 I'm standing in for jzb today 19:22:03 nothing holding marketing back, we're good for beta 19:22:03 roshi: great! 19:22:07 #link http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_Beta_release_announcement 19:22:49 more eyes on release announcement - better! 19:23:05 btw. I'd like to have final version on Monday 19:23:31 this time we would like to create prettier htmlized version for Fedora Magazine 19:23:49 * jreznik has rights to edit it WP 19:24:04 anything else roshi? 19:24:07 I think that should be doable 19:24:13 nope 19:24:22 that's the message I was to deliver :) 19:24:42 thanks roshi! 19:24:50 np :) 19:24:56 #info holding marketing back, we're good for beta 19:25:24 #info release announcement to by published also in Fedora Magazine 19:25:41 #topic Infrastructure 19:25:57 nirik: again you :) 19:26:12 or pingou could speak for badge! 19:26:30 we should be all ready. ;) 19:26:51 #info Infrastructure should be ready 19:27:01 #topic Websites 19:27:10 jreznik: nirik knows it all :) 19:27:15 * pingou lurking 19:27:27 you had a chance! 19:27:35 robyduck: are you around? 19:27:37 Websites are set, just need the final stuff when we have RC 19:27:52 #info Websites are set, just need the final stuff when we have RC 19:27:57 once ready we need AMI IDs as soon as possible 19:28:13 thank you jreznik 19:28:18 ok 19:28:24 marketing info should read "nothing holding marketing back" 19:28:56 not beta thing but for final, I expect you need a lot of stuff - any help you would like for here? 19:29:41 robyduck: ^^^ 19:29:42 jreznik: we are already working on it and it looks good, design team is helping a lot so we should be done in time :) 19:30:10 awesome! ping me in any case when something would be blocked/missing :) 19:30:27 just need updates if WG have new stuff they want to promote 19:30:43 ok jreznik will do for sure 19:31:22 #info WGs to send updates to websites team if they have new stuff they want to promote 19:31:38 #topic QA 19:32:07 adamw, roshi: I don't expect anything else than RC1 and validation, validation and validation, right? 19:32:43 pretty much 19:32:56 tracking down a blocker now - and waiting on an RC1 19:33:01 then testing like crazy 19:33:08 probably going to be a long night :) 19:33:15 that about sum it up adamw ? 19:33:17 yeah 19:33:25 we seem to have found some serious borkage in the 32-bit images 19:33:29 but we're still tracing it out 19:33:34 by 'we' of course i mean 'roshi' 19:33:47 sorry about that :p 19:34:24 ok, thanks - we will see 19:36:09 #topic Release Engineering 19:36:15 dgilmore: are you around? 19:36:35 jreznik: I am 19:36:54 we will be okay 19:36:55 anything from releng for Beta except rc compose? 19:37:22 nada 19:37:24 btw. is it ok to repeat go/no-go the same time if we would be lucky the same time as today or is it late for you? 19:37:39 jreznik: i am at FUDCon 19:37:44 it was during my talk today 19:37:52 it should be okay 19:37:59 but the network here is not great 19:37:59 dgilmore: aha, sorry for that :( 19:38:25 conferences and network... 19:38:34 == boom 19:38:55 something like that 19:39:03 gracias 19:39:32 #info releng will be okay, go/no-go time is okay too 19:40:00 * jreznik does not see noriko, will skip translators 19:40:20 randomuser: any updates for docs? 19:40:27 otherwise I skip to open floor 19:40:31 i'm here 19:40:38 #topic Documentation 19:41:00 We're trying to catch up with covering self-contained changes at the moment 19:41:34 and the situation with netinstalls will have to be documented somehow 19:41:42 it's been an interesting release cycle, for all :) 19:42:16 jreznik, ... I haven't really been following the meeting; should I be speaking to something specific? 19:42:32 nothing specific unless you need anything 19:43:18 btw. I'd say changes are now from 99% complete for Beta... maybe after beta with some testing, there could be some further changes 19:43:50 #info randomuser invites everyone to review RNs at https://fedorapeople.org/groups/docs/release-notes/en-US/ and communicate issues or enhancements 19:43:52 EOF 19:44:02 #info documentation trying to catch up with covering self-contained changes at the moment 19:44:16 #info netinstall situation has to be documented 19:44:22 thanks randomuser! 19:44:43 #topic Open floor 19:46:04 I think we're all set 19:46:12 anything we missed today? 19:46:41 * nirik has nothing 19:46:49 * jreznik is setting fuse 19:46:58 thanks everyone for coming! 19:47:06 3... 19:47:44 2... 19:47:55 1... 19:48:38 * jreznik will do all secretary work needed 19:48:42 thanks pingou 19:48:45 thanks for chairing jreznik 19:48:47 #endmeeting