[yocto] Supporting upcoming distribution releases

[Xu, Jiajun]

> In our technical team call today we spent some time discussing how to
> support distribution releases that are due to happen around the time of Yocto 1.1.
> 
> Yocto 1.1 is scheduled for release on October 6th[1], the same month
> in which both Ubuntu and Fedora have new releases planned[2,3].
> OpenSUSE doesn't have a release scheduled until November 10th[4].
> 
> We should accommodate for these releases in our planning around 1.1 as
> we need to ensure that Yocto 1.1 can be used on the new versions of
> the chosen supported distros.
> 
> I had initially suggested we have people doing test and any relevant
> development around the beta cycles of Ubuntu and Fedora:
> 
> Fedora Beta (2011-09-20)
> Ubuntu (2011-09-01)
> In this time frame OpenSUSE will be on Milestone 5 (2011-09-01) which
> afaict (based on the 6th milestone being followed by an RC) should
> roughly equate to a beta.
> 
> However this aligns with our RC period at which point we may not want
> to accept large patches?
> 
> To meet our stabilise complete goal of August 29th we'd have to have
> people testing with:
> Fedora Alpha (2011-08-16)
> Ubuntu Alpha 3 (2011-08-04)
> OpenSUSE Milestone 4 (2011-08-11)
>

Thanks for the information, Josh.
I will add these into our test plan to make sure the above distribution(N+1) is validated.

> What are peoples thoughts on this? I think the onus for this testing
> will fall on engineers as the project QA is already pretty stretched.
> I have a tendency to update to early releases on at least one machine
> so will no doubt do some testing on Fedora but it would be nice to
> have a genuine strategy for this rather than relying on ad-hoc developer upgrades.
> 
> Final note: I'm left wondering if this emails contents also make sense
> as a wiki page?
> 
> Cheers,
> Joshua
> 
> 1. https://wiki.pokylinux.org/wiki/Yocto_1.1_Schedule
> 2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricReleaseSchedule
> 3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16/Schedule
> 4. http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap

Best Regards,
Jiajun