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]

Wow. It is 21:49 in the evening here (I am with isy and sledge in Cambridge) and image testing has completed! The images are being signed, and sledge is running through the final steps to push them out to our servers, and from there out onto the mirror and torrent networks to be available for public download.

We have had help testing installation images from the regular team; amacater and schweer. With schweer, as ever, covering the edu images. Thank you. This release we were joined by bitin who kindly ran through a couple of tests of the default netinst image with both UEFI and BIOS based VMs, before joining a release party. Moving onto the live images, linux-fan once again spent time testing i386 images on vintage hardware. Getting a desktop environment to work on a Pentium (4?) machine with 1GiB RAM from a live-image sees the number of desktops that will run in this environment get fewer all the time. Again highvoltage was around to run tests on some of the images.

liz, contributed for the first time indeed raised her first bug report as well. I hope that you had fun thanks for joining us today. smcv, also joined in the testing fun a long time DD is this the first time you have run through image smoke tests on release day? thanks! Many thanks to everyone taking time to test installation and live images. Of cause building and testing images doesn t happen in isolation. There is a huge team that puts together and releases the project that is Debin .
On a release day there are many teams working flat out: dsa, ftp, publicity, release, web, and ourselves as the cd/images team.
But that is just activity on a release day
There are all the other teams that are needed to produce the distribution, who work tirelessly day in, day out. Curating the 1,152,960,944 lines of code in Debian bullseye are over more than 6,208 people!!
Some of the contributors are shown in https://contributors.debian.org/contributors/flat
THANK YOU In the 15 minutes it has taken me to compile this post (many thanks to cnote and jmw for facts and figures they published on debian micronews), the last of the image release process has completed by sledge and that s it. Installation images for Debian 11 Bullseye are out in the big wide world, joining the official archives that became available at 10:35 this morning.

I worked with the CD release team over the weekend for the final release of Debian Stretch. One problem: we have media images which we cannot test because the team does not have the hardware. I asked questions on the debian-cd mailing list about the future of these and various other .iso images.

Could we replace some DVDs and larger files with smaller jigdo files so that people can download files to build the DVD locally?

People asked me:

• How do you actually use jigdo to produce a usable media image?
• What advantages does jigdo bring over just downloading a large .iso image?

Why jigdo?

• Downloading large files on a slow or lossy link is difficult.
• Downloading large (several GB) files via http can be unreliable.
• Jigdo can be quicker than trying to download one large file and failing.
• There are few CD mirrors worldwide: jigdo can use a local Debian mirror.
• The transport mechanism is http - no need for a particular port to be opened.

Using jigdo

Jigdo uses information from a template file to reconstruct an .iso file by downloading Debian packages from a mirror. The image is checksummed and verified at the end of the complete download. if the download is interrupted, you can import the previously downloaded part of the file.

Following mini-Debconf and submitting my key to keyring-maint, here's a copy of the note marking the transition. I do retain a copy of the old key: it has not been compromised or revoked (until I'm sure my new key reaches the Debian keyring) and my vote in the GR is validly signed with the old key.

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:11:53 +0000
From: "Andrew M.A. Cater"
To: keyring@rt.debian.org
Subject: Debian RT - new key for amacater
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

pub 1024D/E93ADE7B 2001-07-04
Key fingerprint = F3FA 2752 1327 7904 846D C0DE 3233 C127 E93A DE7B
uid Andrew Cater (Andrew M.A. Cater)
sub 1024g/E8C8CC00 2001-07-04

pub 4096R/22EF1F0F 2014-08-29
Key fingerprint = 5596 5E39 93E0 6E2B 5BA5 CD84 4AA8 FC24 22EF 1F0F
uid Andrew M.A. Cater (Andy Cater)
uid Andrew M.A. Cater (non-Debian email)
sub 4096R/923AB77E 2014-08-29


This is intended to replace the old key by the new key as part of a key transition from old, insecure keys

All the best,

AndyC
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1

iEYEARECAAYFAlRipvgACgkQMjPBJ+k63nvaQACeM9OpQsFb2qzsmNRPH6fwLh5M
zhIAn19XSkKYF85Tj2kvuC5wl7PVSYPS

This because Google (and Planet Debian) are more reliable than my email inbox.

[Keys exchanged at the mini-Debconf have now been signed with the new 4096 bit key]

AndyC

A heads up to my Debian family - before I get to tell some of my other family :) I'm engaged to a wonderful girl. We've known each other off and on for almost 30 years, having met on the first day at university.

Lots of life has happened in the middle - including Debian - but we're now very happily together again.

(amacater@debian.org)