[lubuntu-devel] Fwd: Re: Yakkety Yak (16.10) Final Beta Freeze

[Walter Lapchynski]

Sounds like we should be expecting at least a respin on alternates come
Monday.

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From: "Steve Langasek" <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2016 22:07
Subject: Re: Yakkety Yak (16.10) Final Beta Freeze
To: "Nikita Yerenkov-Scott" <yerenkov.scott at gmail.com>
Cc: <ubuntu-release at lists.ubuntu.com>

Hi Nikita,
>
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:15:51AM +0100, Nikita Yerenkov-Scott wrote:
> > It is now the 24th, what is happening with Final Beta? Has it been
> delayed
> > until a specific date or what is happening with it?
>
> Thanks for the question.  The kernel that landed in yakkety this week
> caused
> critical regressions for the "alternate" installer, affecting Ubuntu Server
> and Lubuntu Alternate images.  Resolving this issue will require a further
> kernel respin, which unfortunately was not discovered until the end of day
> Friday (after several respins had already been done), so there's no
> possibility of releasing these images until Monday.
>
> In the meantime, the archive remains in beta freeze state and the release
> team will do what we can to keep the archive freeze from impacting yakkety
> development unnecessarily, but some delays should be expected while we work
> to finish getting the beta into a releasable state.
>
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>
> > On 21 September 2016 at 10:16, Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > > As of about two minutes ago, yakkety has entered the final beta freeze,
> > > with a goal of releasing Final Beta images sometime late Thursday.
> > >
> > > Due to a rocky start on this beta with landing a last-minute kernel
> > > and a few other hiccups, it's possible the actual release will happen
> > > on Friday morning instead of Thursday night, but let's aim for the
> > > Thursday release and see how we do.
> > >
> > > The queue freeze will last from now until final release in October,
> > > which means that all seeded packages will now need a spot-check and
> > > review in the queue from a release team member before they are let
> > > into the archive.
> > >
> > > As with the previous releases, we have a bot in place that will accept
> > > uploads that are unseeded and don't affect images.  Don't take this as
> > > an open invitation to break Feature Freeze on those components, this
> > > is just to reduce the burden on the release team, so we only review the
> > > uploads that need very serious consideration.  If you find the bot is
> > > blocking an upload that you think should have been auto-accepted, let
> > > us know and we'll sort it out.
> > >
> > > I will be spinning a set of beta candidates right now which I encourage
> > > people to get to testing ASAP for their favourite flavour(s) as they
> > > come off the line.
> > >
> > > Happy bug-hunting from now until the final release, and please do help
> > > out and test ISOs, netboot, etc, where you can and let us know what's
> > > broken in your environment(s).
> > >
> > > On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team,
> > >
> > > Adam Conrad
> > >
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