On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 15:37:26 -0500 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Gerhard Brauer<gerbra@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Montag, den 03.08.2009, 15:08 -0500 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Gerhard Brauer<gerbra@archlinux.de> wrote:
With a text like: for interested people who like to test the base things before end of week the final arrives. We won't like to hear that your machine could not boot with 2.6.30 kernels or virtualbox problems, but on any issue what you see in the install procedure (most with aif). Something like that.
How about: We're looking for installation issues only, not issues with packages themselves. If the ISO boots and installs exactly as expected, then the testing is complete. Problems after the actual installation should be reported to the bug tracker as normal, but should not be reported to the Release Engineering team.
Yes, fine. We should also tell what is new (AIF of course!, boot device detection, ....) and what we like to have most tested. This were IMHO: * time/timezone setting with UTC and localtime * If the boot device is fine detected during archiso boot hook * grub bootloader install * install with usb images, if the USB chipsets are detected (or if we have a massive problem according to FS#15376) * general aif handling, workflow...
Would you mind proposing some announce text, and I can do some basic english editing if needed?
I wrote this quickly because i'm tired: (I'll write something better for the actual release) Hi, We're close to releasing new official Arch installation media. These media will bring *a lot* of new things, so we would like some broader testing. The most important changes since 2009.02: - usage of new AIF installer - better disk editor with support for dm_crypt and lvm setups - support for automated installations (deprecates quickinst) - aufs instead of unionfs - smarter, faster, better boot device detection (esp. for usb users) - better date/time setting - refactored grub installation routines - and more... To test this, you can try many things: - the interactive and automatic procedures. - net & cd-based installations - usb vs cd-rom images, isolinux vs grub. Our bugtracker: http://bugs.archlinux.org/proj6 Mailing list: http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-releng New installation guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Official_Arch_Linux_Instal... You can get the RC's from: http://build.archlinux.org/isos/ Dieter