Report from FAI developer meeting 04/2011
Last week a developer meeting of the FAI project took place in Cologne/Germany. Four core developers (project lead Thomas Lange and 3x Michael :)) met for two days to discuss and work on the FAI project.
The first day (2011-04-14) started at 11:45 and lasted until around 21:15, the second day (2011-04-15) started at 11:00 and lasted until 22:00. We made 134 svn commits in those two days. The developer meeting was great, we got tons of stuff done:
- New release candidate version for stable release 3.4.8
- Implemented support for CentOS 5
- Website improvements:
- Setup-storage improvements:
- Backport from trunk/experimental of setup-storage into 3.4.8
- Cleanup of setup-storage patches
- Minor bugfixes
- setup-storage in 3.4 got align-at and default to cylinder alignment if preserve is used
- Worked on autotesting using Kantan:
- new kantan release with new features and better performane
- prepared initial test-suite scenarios for usage inside Kantan
- Discussed Release management:
- 3.4.x considered as long term stable release (includes tested bugfixes and tested features that have been backported from developer versions (4.x and experimental))
- 4.x considered as developer version (inclusion of fast bugfixes, inclusion of big features which might break stable version,…)
- Documentation:
- Officially documented release management notes for stable release
- Officially documented developer policy (WIP)
- Unsorted other stuff:
- Removed obsolete branches in svn
- Grub now being installed from inside the target instead of nfsroot
- Changelog in trunk got entries from 3.4.X with fixed git commit ids; entries were merged to find exact diff of trunk to 3.4.X
- Defined what needs to be done after the developer meeting.