Proposal to Release Ubuntu 10.10 on 10.10.10

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Robbie,

Robbie Williamson [2010-05-09 13:15 +0200]:
> I have been approached with a proposal to move the release date up by 3
> weeks to 10/10/10

This will severely shorten the amount of time which we have for
feature development [1], but more importantly, it will misalign us to
the release cycle of GNOME (which we synced tightly to up to now). I
fully agree with Colin's response here.

If there was a substantial technical reason for moving it earlier, it
would certainly be doable, but I do not think that the mere fact of
the date match is a sufficient reason.

What would fit quite well is to push out the beta on this date,
though. The beta is targetted at technically inclined people who will
appreciate the "binary 42" pun, and it would be much more in line with
our regular cycle. Would that be a suitable alternative?

Thank you,

Martin

[1] I'm afraid that it will actually cut into the QA phase, not just
    feature development.
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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