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[Thomas Ward]

God forbid I sound stupid, but which "release" are we talking about?  Are
we talking about Raring (the development release), or are we talking about
lucid, precise, quantal, etc. (stable releases)?

If you are talking about stable releases, then I think bugfixes getting in
are dependent on people working on them, and the SRU team's take on whether
or not to allow the bugfix in.  There's no minimum bug severity that can
get in, although if the bug severity will cause a new feature to be added,
I believe it has to be checked and thoroughly tested prior to inclusion.
Otherwise, I've gotten low/medium things fixed in those releases.  Of
course, those usually are dependent on community verification, since I work
a lot with Universe packages.

If you're talking about the development release, I tend to try and get bug
fixes in before final freeze.  Although its not often I'll handle a bug in
the development release, so I'm probably not that qualified to comment on
the development release.


The lifecycle of a release is also in part the lifecycle of a bugfix:
Bugfixes are accepted in any release (dependent on others verifying the
"bugfix" submitted works, in -proposed (look for "Verification" on that SRU
page that was linked to you earlier)) until it is EOL (End of Life).  Heck,
even Hardy can still get updates, and its almost End of Life.

(Any other bugsquader who knows more is free to correct this, as I am not
quoting things, this is mostly what I've picked up over my time working in
bugs)

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Thomas
Ubuntu Member
Ubuntu BugSquad Member

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella <
es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Oh, thank you. But the question was rather till which point in time a bug
> fix can enter the release.
>
>
> El 10/02/13 18:28, Andrea Corbellini escribió:
>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella
> <es20490446e at gmail.com> <es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, but this explanation seems not to be in accordance with what is
> explained in the Ubuntu Wiki Stable Release Updates<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates>and Final
> Freeze <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FinalFreeze> pages. It seems that the
> moment when updates for no critical bugs are forbidden is after the final
> freeze in the Release Schedule<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseSchedule>.
> Is this right?
>
>
> FinalFreeze says that only updates that address "Release critical bugs",
> "Security critical bugs" or "Exceptional circumstances" can land in Ubuntu.
>
>  StableReleaseUpdate explains what the exceptional circumstances are (see
> 2. When).
>
>  None of the two pages put requirements on the importance of the bugs
> being fixed. Generally, bugs that get fixed through SRUs are Critical,
> sometimes High, but this is a consequence of the SRU requirements, but not
> a constraint. In theory, even a Wishlist bug may be fixed through a stable
> release update, this is perfectly permitted.
>
>  For example look here:
>
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+bugs?orderby=-importance&field.status%3Alist=FIXRELEASED&field.importance%3Alist=LOW&field.importance%3Alist=WISHLIST&field.tag=verification-done
>
>  This is the list of all Low and Wishlist bugs that got fixed in Quantal
> via SRUs. Obviously that list isn't long, however it shows that bug
> importance and stable release updates are not strictly related.
>
>
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