hi guys,

I am sure lots of people want to know - so here is a quick status update about 6.0 build.

Over the next 2 days, we are going to clear out all patches and ensure all patched packages build and link correctly. That would then complete the package 'tree'. As soon as that is done ( good place to check is look at the AuditStatus page in the wiki, but I am hopeful we can get this done for Monday the 17th close of play ). The only major time consuming process is getting the anaconda patches in, including the language and url remapping stuff; most of the rest should be fairly quick working through if its a few people working on it.

The actual distro build process has already been tested, although with a smaller and incomplete tree. With the complete tree in place, we can then get the package policy in place ( as in what rpm makes it to which media disk etc ), and fire up a distro build.

What happens at this point is that the QA team get access to the output from the distro-build process; and they need to go through the motions of making sure its-all-good. This is also the stage where the release notes get setup, and the translation teams goto work on their stuff.

A thumbs up from the QA team means the content is then passed onto the infra team and we move to release. The 'seed' process takes between 48 hrs to 72 hrs; and we announce release right after that. About 24 hrs after we open the seeding process, we pass around the .torrent files to high capacity seeders ( 100mbps+ available for at-least a week from release date ). so if you can, do join.

- KB