Feature Freeze this Thursday

[Steve Langasek]

Dear Developers,

This Thursday is February 14, and we all know what that means:  a
last-minute dash to get all your major changes into the archive in time for
the Hardy Heron Feature Freeze!

By the end of the day on February 14, all hardy-targeted specs should
be either at Beta Available or Postponed.  Please make sure to update the
status of your specs.  You should check that packages you care about are at
a version suitable for release.

Requests for freeze exceptions for main should be filed as bugs in
Launchpad against the relevant package (or just "Ubuntu" if the
package is not available yet). Once the bug is filed and the necessary
information is available, please subscribe the ubuntu-release team.

For universe, the motu-release team will approve new packages and upstream
version freeze exceptions between now and the Beta.

Please see this wiki page for full details:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess

Cheers,
--
Steve Langasek
On behalf of the Ubuntu release team