Re: [Tails-dev] Porting Tails to Debian Stretch

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Author: sajolida
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Porting Tails to Debian Stretch
intrigeri:
> sajolida wrote (09 Mar 2016 12:19:48 GMT) :
>>> We are in particular looking for one person to be
>>> responsible for the documentation-side of things, since we feel
>>> keeping it sort-of up-to-date will help us identify regressions
>>> early.
>
>> I can be this person.
>
> Excellent! I've updated the blueprint accordingly.
>
>>> Regarding timelines, the freeze for Debian Stretch will be in
>>> early December, so the work has to start early enough so issues
>>> can be identified and fixed before that (post-freeze fixes are
>>> generally much harder). Due to other committments me and
>>> intrigeri will not be able to start this until some time early
>>> August, which will give us almost four months for this work
>>> before the Stretch freeze. We intend to kickstart this effort
>>> with a sprint where we meet face to face, and other participants
>>> will of course be welcome.
>
>> Now the Stretch freeze has been postponed to 2017-02-05.
>
>> I don't know what my calendar for the summer and fall will be but I
>> can't guarantee right now that I can also jump from "intrigeri will not
>> be able to start this until some time early August" to "kickstart this
>> effort with a sprint [in August]" (implicit in your email).
>
> Please let us know when you know more when you can start, then :)


I'd prefer setting the dates of the summit first.

> Note that the very first sprint (that we would like to have in August
> 2016) might not be very exciting to doc people, given what we expect
> to be the goals there. Quoting the blueprint:
>
> * August 2016 — start working on Tails 3.0 (1 week sprint with
> all involved people) :intrigeri:anonym:kytv:
> - get feature/stretch to build and boot
> - update the automated test suite to test Tails/Stretch ISO images
>
> … so it's no big deal if you join us for the 2nd sprint only.


Right. Then it might be better for me if I can skip this one :)
And until there's an ISO image it might be hard for me to be helpful.