Release announcement mails
Debian Edu 11 Bullseye will be released at the same time as Debian 11 Bullseye (planned date: 2021-08-14).
The Debian publicity team will send the Debian Edu release announcement mail one day after that date.
In addition, announcement mails from the Debian Edu team go to...
English -- To: debian-edu-announce (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu-german (at) lists.debian.org, debian-edu-french (at) lists.debian.org, annonsering (at) nuug.no, pressemelding (at) nuug.no
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Remember the debian-edu-announce@ list is a moderated one; emails need to be accepted by a list moderator (or need to be signed by a DD).
For translated announcements, the announcement mail should contain a link to the translation on debian.org/News (and thus could be short); they are sent to these recipients:
Bokmal/Norway -- To: 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
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:
The announcement has been translated to: (de,fr,gl,it,nl,pt,sv).
Clone:
git clone git@salsa.debian.org:publicity-team/announcements.git
Checks before the release
The ISO image URLs below are valid at release time; to check items before, use the latest weekly builds. Links are available on the Debian Edu Bullseye status page.
TODO:
- Set release version in:
[
] d-e-install and [ ] upload the package early enough before the release. [
] d-e-doc
[
] Check if the email addresses found at the top of the page are up-to-date. [
] Inform debian-publicity@ and debian-i18n@ early enough before the release date. [
] English draft file review by native speaker. [
] Coordinate release with the Debian CD team (BD image package list). - Test if ISO images are usable for installations:
[ ] BD image https://get.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-bd/
[ ] BD image https://get.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/iso-bd/
[ ] NETINST image: https://get.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/
[ ] NETINST image: https://get.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/iso-cd/
- Check if BD images are usable in offline mode.
[
] amd64 [
] i386
- Test if a standard installation (combi server w/ Xfce) is working:
[
] Installation w/ LTSP diskless workstations and X2Go thin clients. [
] GOsa² add users. [
] GOsa² mass add users using CSV file. [
] GOsa² add workstation. [
] Use X2Go thin client. [
] Use LTSP diskless workstation. [
] Setup internal mail (Thunderbird). [
] Use Mutt to read internal mail (on the main server). - [ ] Login on Debian Edu workstation updated from Buster.
[
] Install system via PXE.
- Test if Edu supported desktop environments are usable:
[
] Xfce [
] KDE Plasma [
] GNOME [
] MATE [
] LXDE [
] LXQt [
] Cinnamon
- Test if Samba is working as fileserver:
[
] Access a user's server side home directory from a roaming workstation. [
] Access files via SMB2/SMB3 on the main server from non-edu client
[
] Set date in release announcement draft file. - Check if already existing draft translations are up-to-date (release name and date).
[
] (de). [
] (fr). [
] (gl). [
] (it). [
] (nl). [
] (pt). [
] (sv).