Postmortem and lessons learned for Linaro's release 2012.09

https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1209/Release/Review

Highlights and Key Successes ============================

The 12.09 release cycle saw some early work on minimal ARMv8 bootstrap, with a very minimal rootfs to help other developers that want to get involved with porting. This work is critical for the future of Linux on ARMv8, as the major GNU/Linux distributions can use it as base to bootstrap and support this new architechture.

Registration (http://connect.linaro.org/wp-login.php?redirect_to=/register-connect/) is open for Linaro Connect (LCE 12 Copenhagen) which will be held from 29 Oct to 2 Nov at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Demark. In addition to the regular track sessions, LCE 12 will host three mini summits: an ARMv8 (64-bit) mini-summit on the Tuesday, an Android mini-summit on the Wednesday and a big.LITTLE mini-summit on the Thursday.

Postmortem and Lessons Learned ==============================

Development and delivery planning continues to be a high priority as Linaro continues to grow. The platform team has instituted a release week standup meeting to coordinate development and release planning for the upcoming cycle and consolidate QA status for the cycle.

As Linaro expands we will be reviewing our processes to determine the best and most effiecient way to move forward.

Blueprints ========= The number of high or essential priority blueprints that missed the cycle: Android 3 out of 12 Developer Platform 4 out of 6 Infrastructure 1 out of 5 Lava 0 out of 2 QA 1 out of 3 Total 9 out of 28

32% of high or essential priority blueprints scheduled for this cycle were not delivered.

Total blueprints: 22 out of 53 missed the cycle.

High priority missed blueprints recap: 12.05: 19 out of 48, 39% 12.06: 13 out of 31, 42% 12.07: 14 out of 31, 45% 12.08: 6 out of 26, 23% 12.09: 9 out of 28, 32%

* Not included is data from working groups and landing teams

Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjEaTwrvj1bidGVXTlFYQUJJcnMxa1N...