Greetings,
Here is the summary for Linaro release 11.11 postmortem and lessons learned. For a detailed release review please visit
https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1111/Release/Review
Highlights and Key Successes ============================
This month's release was highlighted by the release from the Android team of Ice Cream Sandwich images. Uploaded to youtube, the demonstration of these images running on the Snowball platform gave Linaro some great visibility and publicity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQOKPLg3ARE
The Android LEB is now based off of Android 2.3.7 with a first release of Versatile Express, using the Linaro ARM LT kernel, a NEON optimized libpng, preliminary DS-5 support and a host of bug fixes and enhancements.
The Ubuntu LEB now officially supports the PandaBoard ES and features PandaBoard's USB booting with U-Boot USB-SPL. Developers have access to updated ARM DS-5 packages, and both source and debug packages for all Linaro's kernels. Also, Firefox can now be cross-built using multi- arch. Instructions are available from
http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/CrossCompile/FirefoxCrossCompile.
For more information on release highlights please see our release page:
https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1111/Release
Postmortem and Lessons Learned ==============================
The overall sentiment from the development teams regarding this release is positive. Even though the cycle was relatively short and included a first week at Linaro Connect, planning went smoothly and the items delivered were interesting and substantive.
Communication is an issue that has been re-occurring through the past few release cycles. Platform and Landing teams have proposed a plan to facilitate communications between the teams.
Testing is another issue that has high visibility. Testing internal deliveries before hand off is crucial for delivering quality in the final release and will minimize the number of times that images need to be re-spun.
Teams are still adjusting to the monthly release cycle. Work estimating is being fine-tuned so that the amount of effort per team per cycle is appropriate. Progress has been made and most of the work scheduled for this cycle was delivered, even with the addition of ICS.
There are still a couple of groups that have not entered postmortem comments in the release review wiki page.
The issues have generated several lessons learned: * A meeting to determine a communications plan was held and resulted in the following recommendations: * Schedule a meeting once a month to discuss platform/landing team issues. * Schedule a weekly meeting to discuss common bugs for landing teams and platform teams has been scheduled. * On the last Friday, Monday and Tuesday of the cycle there will a stand-up meeting with platform and landing teams to discuss any last minute issues.