On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:04:01PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

On 02.01.2009, at 17:09, Brian Pepple wrote:

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Hi All,

A pre-release build of 8.2.1 is now available for testing. It has passed an initial smoke test and now needs broader testing.

The build download and problem reporting instructions are here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing#Current_status

The very early draft release notes are here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.1

Please send a note to the list if you try this build even if you don't find anything interesting. We want to measure our test capacity.

You should mention that you want people to test the latest "staging" build, not the latest "8.2.1" build (which is exactly the same as 8.2.0 at this point):

http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/8.2.1-staging.html

This is a significant change from previous release procedures (e.g., I was not even aware that "staging" builds were meant for testing).

Bert,

Here's the idea:

(f10/olpc4) (f9/olpc3) | | v v joyride staging | | v v (9.1.0) 8.2.1 \ \ available now. \ will be created eventually

(This is the first time we've had two active integration streams.)

Does this help clarify things?

Michael