Intrepid Alpha 2 coming next Thursday

[Martin Pitt]

Hello fellow developers,

With the DebianImportFreeze now in effect, and most merges being done,
the time for the second Intrepid Alpha has come.

It is scheduled for next Thursday, July 10. Due to the successful
approach of imposing only a "soft" freeze, we will continue with this
policy for Alpha 2.  Once again, we are asking you the developers to
refrain from uploading packages between Tuesday and Thursday which
don't bring us closer to releasing the alpha, so that these days can
be used for settling the archive and fixing any remaining
showstoppers.

The list of bugs targetted for alpha-2 can be found in a couple of
different places, according to your tastes:

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/intrepid-alpha-2
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=1320

This milestone is intended to be used for tracking bugs that must be
fixed in order for the alpha release to happen.  If you have doubts
about whether a bug should block the alpha, please err on the side of
caution by using the milestone for the bug so that the release team
can review it.  Please also consider helping with the bugs already
listed there if you have the time.

The number of bugs blocking the alpha is expected to be relatively
small, so if you don't have any milestoned bugs assigned to you,
please consider helping with the list of bugs that are listed as
release-critical for intrepid as a whole:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+bugs>.  Again, please use
your best judgement with regard to the alpha freeze when uploading
fixes for these bugs.

Please also help us to get the archive in a consistent state again for
the alpha, as described on
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Consistency>.

Thanks,

Martin Pitt
On behalf of the Ubuntu release team
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