[lubuntu-devel] Fwd: Preparing for 14.04.4 release on Feb 18

[Phill. Whiteside]

And, as someone asked What The Hell is WHE (and I had to look it up),
here's a link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/1204_HWE_EOL

Regards,

Phill.

On 10 February 2016 at 20:03, Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 2:16 AM
> Subject: Preparing for 14.04.4 release on Feb 18
> To: ubuntu-release at lists.ubuntu.com
> Cc: ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
> For starters, people may note that the date in the subject is a week
> later than they were expecting.  Due to a lack of testing of the HWE
> stack, and a few other compounded issues (like my being ill), I'm
> delaying the release until the 18th, prefering having it done right,
> rather than having it done quickly.
>
> With that said, here's the general plan:
>
> 1) If you haven't already smoketested some dailies to make sure your
>    flavour is working alright with the HWE stack, please do so now.
>
> 2) If you have last minute fixes that affect the live session or the
>    installer, get them in the queue now and bring my attention to
>    them.  Anything that doesn't fit those two categories will likely
>    not make it into the point release (but will be fine as SRUs as
>    usual after the release).
>
> 3) I will be promoting the HWE stack to -updates and switching the
>    ISO builds to exclude -proposed by the end of the week, and we
>    can consider any images produced over the weeked as RCs for the
>    point release.
>
> 4) Testing in the first few days of next week should lead us to a
>    set of images we're confident about releasing on Thursday.
>
> Remember that *all* flavours signed up to be LTS flavours for trusty,
> so do find some people to test, and remind your counterparts from
> other flavours that they're on the hook for giving us a pass/fail,
> and do be good citizens and help out where people are lacking in the
> right hardware or manpower to test a specific image.
>
> ... Adam
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