[Hamara-devel] Fwd: Fwd: The Jessie release got a bit Stretch'ed

[Vikas Tara]

I started a jessie repo sync this morning - so we can formally join the 
debian party very soon :)

On 27/04/15 18:59, shirish wrote:
> And btw there were 17 release parties in India, unfortunately 15 of 
> them in Kerala. But this is where we would have to do our thing as well.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 14:04:50 +0200
> Subject: The Jessie release got a bit Stretch'ed
> To: debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> As already officially announced, we have now released Debian 8,
> "Jessie".
>
> There are too many people who should be thanked for their
> work on getting us to this point to list them all individually, and we
> would be sure to miss some.  Nevertheless, we would like to particularly
> thank the installer team, the buildd and ftp teams, the CD team, the
> publicity team, the webmasters, the Release Notes editors, porters and
> all the package maintainers and translators who have contributed to
> making Jessie a great release of which we should all be proud.
>
> First point release
> ===================
>
> As was the case for Wheezy, we anticipate that the first point release
> for Jessie will likely occur in approximately a month's time. That has
> yet to be finalised, but we hope to be able to confirm the plans soon.
>
> Please co-ordinate fixes which you would like to see included in the
> point release with the Stable Release Team via a "pu" bug against the
> release.debian.org pseudopackage, including a debdiff of the current and
> proposed source packages.
>
> Stretch!
> ========
>
> The release of Jessie also means that you can now upload to unstable
> those changes you've been holding off during the freeze.  Please do not
> rush to upload everything all at once, in order to reduce load on the
> buildds etc.  Automatic testing migration is not yet re-enabled, but
> that will happen during the next day or so.
>
> As with jessie, we would ask that you co-ordinate particularly large
> transitions or changes; if your plans involve major toolchain changes or
> otherwise have the potential to cause problems in unstable for a long
> time (e.g. due to FTBFS issues), please talk to us.  We know that there
> are a large number of changes which have been waiting for the release to
> happen and we're keen not to stand in the way of those but would also
> like to avoid a number of larger transitions becoming entangled.
>
> That's it for now; it is time for the celebrations to begin, whether at
> a Release Party[PARTY] or otherwise. :-)
>
> Niels, Adam, and your Debian Jessie Release Team
>
> [PARTY] http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyJessie
>
>
>
>
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