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= Release Notes =

This page is licensed under [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html|GPL-2]]. Content may be merged in the [[http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#relnotes|Release Notes]] :

== Infrastructure ==

 * '''Website''': http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp
 * '''Salsa Project''': under Debian Documentation Project: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/
 * '''Source''': https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/
 * '''Translation Statistics''' : 
    * [[https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/statistics.html|for the current stable version]]
    * [[https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/statistics.html|for the current testing version, i.e. next stable version]]



== Interacting with the team ==

 * '''Email contact''': ''<<MailTo(debian-doc AT lists DOT debian DOT org)>>''
 * '''Request tracker''': http://bugs.debian.org/release-notes

To contact the translation teams, please use the relevant i18n mailing list. E-mail for all these mailing lists can be found at https://lists.debian.org/i18n.html

== Task description ==

Provide release-notes for :
 * [[http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes|the current stable version]]
 * [[http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes|the current testing version, i.e. next stable version]]
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Note: those release notes are built many times a day on [[http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/resources.html#servers-www|www-master]], using a cronjob. The build logs are available from [[http://www-master.debian.org/build-logs/webwml/release-notes.log]] (and {{{*.log.*}}})
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== Todo List ==

 * (./) --(Tag current stable release-notes with the release name, and work on trunk))--
 * {*} Update the build script on www-master, to use lenny's new SVN location
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Review current release-notes and remove content specific to current stable
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Get package maintainers to provide accurate NEWS file
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Get news items from non-packages team (porting, debian-installer, Debian Live, QA, mirrors, FTPmasters..)
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Use as an input the delta between lenny and squeeze NEWS files, partially done at http://lintian.debian.org/~spaillard/
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Follow RC bugs opened in squeeze: document, workarounds (using bts affect BugNumber release-notes)
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Provide a popcon-sorted list of packages added, removed between Lenny and Squeeze http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/linux/comp-dist2/squeeze/
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Changes in virtualization support and upgrade path: XEN, openVZ, etc.
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Check [[ReleaseGoals]] achievement and document them
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Get much feedback on upgrade issues prior to the release: prepare a upgrade to testing path using qemu or vmware to test the update, with ''<<MailTo(debian-testing DOT lists AT debian DOT org)>>''
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Process user feedback from http://bugs.debian.org/upgrade-reports http://bugs.debian.org/installation-reports : make it a bug against a specific package and/or release-notes
 * <<Icon(star_on.png)>> Make sure the coverage of the release-notes todolist is full

== Useful resources ==

 * [[NewInSqueeze]]
 * [[NewInWheezy]]
 * [[NewInJessie]]
 * [[DebianStretch#New_Features]]