Release announcement mails
For English-only release announcements, the announcement mails go to...
English-only -- To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (at) lists.debian.org, debian-publicity (at) lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce (at) lists.debian.org, linuxiskolen (at) skolelinux.no, admin-discuss (at) skolelinux.org, debian-edu-german (at) lists.debian.org, bruker (at) skolelinux.no, debian-edu-french (at) lists.debian.org, styret (at) skolelinux.no, press (at) debian.org, distro (at) distrowatch.com
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Remember emails to debian-edu-announce@ must be signed by a Debian developer.
For translated announcements, the translated announcement mails are sent to these recipients...
English -- To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (at) lists.debian.org, debian-publicity (at) lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce (at) lists.debian.org, admin-discuss (at) skolelinux.org, press (at) debian.org, distro (at) distrowatch.com
Bokmal/Norway -- To: linuxiskolen (at) skolelinux.no, bruker (at) skolelinux.no, styret (at) skolelinux.no, annonsering (at) nuug.no, pressemelding (at) nuug.no
German -- To: debian-edu-german (at) lists.debian.org
French -- To: debian-edu-french (at) lists.debian.org
If the Debian publicity team has already sent the announcement, these addresses should be excluded from the above ones: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-publicity (at) lists.debian.org, debian-devel-announce (at) lists.debian.org, press (at) debian.org, distro (at) distrowatch.com
Release announcement draft
To be able to use the Debian publicity infrastructure more easily, the draft is kept in the Debian publicity team's announcements.git; see:
Clone:
ssh://git.debian.org/git/publicity/announcements.git
All DDs have write access, alioth-account users need to be member of the publicity team; see https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity.
TODO:
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] Set release version in d-e-i and d-e-doc. [
] Set release version in CD-administrator CONF files. - Test if ISO images are usable for installations:
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(Jun 17 06:50 UTC) ] BD image ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-stretch-usbstick/debian-edu-amd64-i386-BD-1.iso [
(Jun 17 07:00 UTC) ] NETINST image: ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-stretch-amd64-i386-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso.
- Test if standard installation (combi server w/ KDE) is working:
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(Jun 10) ] Installation w/ LTSP chroot and NBD image. [
(Jun 10) ] GOsa² add users. [
(Jun 10) ] GOsa² mass add users using CSV file. [
(Jun 10) ] GOsa² add workstation. [
(Jun 10) ] Use LTSP thin client. [
(Jun 10) ] Use LTSP diskless workstation. [
(Jun 10) ] Setup internal mail (Thunderbird). [
(Jun 10) ] Login on updated Edu Stretch workstation. [
(Jun 17) ] Install system via PXE.
- Test if Edu supported desktop environments are usable:
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(Jun 16) ] KDE Plasma [
(Jun 16) ] GNOME [
(Jun 16) ] MATE [
(Jun 16) ] LXDE [
(Jun 16) ] Xfce
- Test if Samba NT4 style domain controller support is working:
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(Jun 12) ] Join Win10 device to domain SKOLELINUX. ( Had to add 'server max protocol = NT1' to smb.conf [global] section.) [
(Jun 12) ] Logon as domain user. [
(Jun 12) ] Access files on the main server.
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(Sat May 20) ] English draft file review by native speaker. [
(Jun 17) ] Copy ISO images to release location on ftp.s.no. [
(Jun 17) ] Check ISOs and SHA256 sums file location in draft file. [
(Jun 13) ] Set date in release announcement draft file. [
(Jun 17) ] Inform the publicity team some days ahead of the release date so that translation teams can be informed. - Check if already existing draft translations are up-to-date (ISO file names, release name and date).
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(Jun 13) ] (vi). [
(Jun 13) ] (de). [
(Jun 13) ] (fr). [
(Jun 14) ] (nl). [
(Jun 19) ] Check if above email list is up-to-date.