Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

[Posted April 18, 2013 by corbet]

From:		Neil McGovern <neilm-AT-debian.org>
To:		debian-devel-announce-AT-lists.debian.org
Subject:		FINAL release update
Date:		Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:22:21 +0100
Message-ID:		<20130418142221.GO3263@halon.org.uk>

Hi all,

Once again, and hopefully for the final time for this cycle, we are
writing to you with a release update.

Timings
=======

We now have a target date of the weekend of 4th/5th May for the release.
We have checked with core teams, and this seems to be acceptable for
everyone.  This means we are able to begin the final preparations for a
release of Debian 7.0 - "Wheezy".

The intention is only to lift the date if something really critical pops
up that is not possible to handle as an errata, or if we end up
technically unable to release that weekend (e.g. a required machine
crashes or d-i explodes in a giant ball of fire). Every other RC fix
that does not make it in time will be r1 material. Please be sure to
contact us about the RC fixes you would like included in the point
release!

Status
======

From the usertags page[1]: you can see a total of:
Blockers for Wheezy bugs (2 bugs)
Planned for removal bugs (4 bugs)
Ignored for Wheezy bugs (58 bugs)

These have all been actioned/fixed. However, there are also about 17
bugs that have not yet been tagged[2] and are not hinted. These will be
actioned shortly.


Awesomeness of Wheezy
=====================

We really need some more work on http://wiki.debian.org/NewInWheezy,
please help contribute! Let's tell everyone why Wheezy will be the best
release ever.

As well as this, release notes, installation guides and documentation in
general, especially translations can always do with some work. Please
see previous mails on these, and help if you can.

Neil, on behalf of the Debian Release Team

[1]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=releas...
[2]
http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=wheezy&notwhee...
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Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 18, 2013 18:28 UTC (Thu) by dfsmith (guest, #20302) [Link] (11 responses)

Any sign of wobbly windows for Wheezy yet?

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 18, 2013 19:04 UTC (Thu) by hadrons123 (guest, #72126) [Link] (3 responses)

With the rate of release critical bugs going down, I was expecting release within next week. But anyways Debian stands for its core values as it always have been. Great!

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 18, 2013 20:14 UTC (Thu) by ana (guest, #41598) [Link]

The bug count is important but it isn't the only thing to take into account to set the release date. The debian-installer needs to be ready, same with the release notes, also the people creating the installer media, managing the archive infrastructure, etc, must be available to do their part of the job to release.

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 18, 2013 20:41 UTC (Thu) by price (guest, #59790) [Link] (1 responses)

In an otherwise unrelated mail a couple of weeks ago to debian-devel, Neil mentioned that he was "currently canvassing a release weekend when everyone who needs to do work on the day can make it". I expect that they were simply unable to get all the essential people online either last weekend, next, or the one after next.

(Ideally one might hope for a process where all those people can do their work asynchronously to prepare the release and then just one person, or two because redundancy is good, publish it when ready. But that'd surely be a good deal of work to set up, and for a process that only happens every couple of years it's unsurprising that it hasn't.)

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 18, 2013 23:07 UTC (Thu) by neilm (guest, #28422) [Link]

Well, interestingly we technically only need three or four teams available. However, getting people ready to release has been half of the canvas: ie - will cd images be ready, or d-i, or press...

One of the major issues is translators, which is often overlooked.

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 18, 2013 19:53 UTC (Thu) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link] (6 responses)

Wobbly windows work just fine in KDE in Wheezy.

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 18, 2013 20:44 UTC (Thu) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841) [Link] (5 responses)

Shouldn't that be "wobbly windows work wonderfully with Wheezy" :-)

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 18, 2013 21:07 UTC (Thu) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link] (4 responses)

Saying just Wheezy is too generic since it doesn't specify what DE you are talking about. Any particular effects are DE specific however.

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 18, 2013 22:52 UTC (Thu) by dfsmith (guest, #20302) [Link] (3 responses)

I was thinking specifically about compiz[-fusion]. Despite the eye-candy emphasis, there are some genuinely useful (i.e., productive) features. (Zoom, auto-window-transparency, opaque open/close animations for multi-monitor, etc.)

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 18, 2013 23:36 UTC (Thu) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link] (2 responses)

I'm not using Compiz (and even Gnome) for quite some time. All of those are present in Debian/KDE I think, and work well.

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 19, 2013 7:20 UTC (Fri) by freggy (guest, #37477) [Link] (1 responses)

Compiz is present in Debian, but it will not be included in Wheezy because it is de facto unmaintained. The versions in the Debian repositories are pretty much outdated.

$ apt-cache policy compiz
compiz:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.8.4-5.2
  Version table:
     0.9.2.1+git20110226.f059fae9-4 0
        102 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages
     0.8.4-5.2 0
        200 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" release planned for May 5

Posted Apr 19, 2013 7:55 UTC (Fri) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]

Yeah, KDE uses its own KWin based effects and doesn't require Compiz for wobbly windows.