20230826 OMGWTFBBQ - Cambridge is waking up

 The meat has been fetched: those of us in the house are about to get bacon sandwiches. Pepper the dog is in the garden. Time for the mayhem to start, I think.

Various folk are travelling here so it will soon be crowded: the weather is sunny but cool and it looks good for a three day weekend.

This is a huge effort that falls to Steve and Jo and a huge disruption for them each year - for which many thanks, as ever. [And, as is traditional on this blog, the posts only ever seem to appear from Cambridge].

20230722 1804 UTC - All signed, all pushed, all done.

So it's there on  Download on the Debian web site.

Thanks to the folk who've done this point release testing. No new major bugs found: a couple of pre-existing ones may still be there.

Thanks very much indeed to the new people who have been in IRC on debian-cd, downloading, testing, editing the wiki page.

This release has gone very well indeed - I'll see some of the same folk at the BBQ in late August but otherwise we'll be back in September or so for the next point release for Bookworm (and probably a release for Bullseye as well).

Now trying various tricks with Raspberry Pi 4s to get them to boot with UEFI and the standard Debian installer.

20230722 1436 - Happily chunking through release tests

Lots of tests being tried and passing. The usual bits of finger trouble / misreading the wiki.

 People are settling into the rhythm. Almost all of the tests for the standard .iso files are done and we're well into testing live images.

 All's good

20230722 - Releasing Debian testing for Debian Bookworm point release 12.1

And so we're back at Steve's in Cambridge for release testing.

 A few testers here: we're now well into testing the various iso images.

So we have Sledge, RattusRattus, Isy, smcv and myself. We've also been joined here by Helen who has just done her first install.  

Online we've got a couple of new folk - luna, The_Blode. Thanks to everyone involved - we always need all the help we can get.

Cold and grey outside: usual warmth in here.  Also the usual snake of cables to trip over across the floor.

 

 

202306101949 - Release of install media - scripts running now

People are working quietly, cross-checking, reading back steps and running individual steps - we're really almost there for the install media.

Just had a friendly, humorous meal out by the barbeque in Sledge's garden. It's been quite a long day but we're just finished.

All this and then we'll probably have the first point release for Bookworm 12.1 in about a month. That will contain some few fixes which came in at the last minute and any other issues we've found today.

BOOKWORM IS HERE!!

202306101353 - Release testing of media in full swing

 Most of the install images for Debian media have now been tested.

Various folk are now testing the live media.

We have been joined by a couple of people in IRC who have also done a few tests.

Useful things to note :)

The release name is Bookworm *not* Bookwork.

Debian 13 will be Trixie when it gets here: testing will be re-enabled shortly.

The release notes detail the changes in /etc/apt/sources.list to accommodate the changes to non-free-firmware but also see also Sources List on the Debian wiki.

202306101010 - Debian release preparations and boot media testing in Cambridge

 We've all met up in Cambridge - so there's an egw_, amacater, kibi who has travelled over to join us, Isy, RattusRattus and Sledge mostly sat round a table. The usual number of laptops, three monitors, Rattus' tower machine.

Network running well and we're all ready to go, I think - there's normally a flurry of activity to get things started then a wait for a while for the first images

Coffee and tea at the ready - bacon sandwiches are on the way

[And the build process is under way - and smcv has joined us]