Lucid Alpha 1 freeze ahead

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at ubuntu.com
Mon Dec 7 07:02:30 GMT 2009


Dear Ubuntu developers,

UDS Lucid has shown the tremendous committment of the Ubuntu community to
making 10.04 a rock-solid LTS release.  Now it's time to begin to deliver on
that promise.  Lucid Alpha 1 is scheduled for this coming Thursday, December
10.

Alpha milestones in Ubuntu use a "soft freeze" for main[1], which means that
developers are asked 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 targeted for alpha-1 can be found at:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs?field.milestone=21443

Per the policy described at <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RCBugTargetting>, this
list is used for tracking bugs that are blockers for the alpha 1 milestone -
so as you can see, the list will be quite short.  If you know of bugs that
should be considered blockers, please nominate them for release and set the
milestone target for those bugs.  If you have questions about whether a bug
should be considered a blocker, please contact a member of the release
team[2].

Beyond that short list of bugs that are blockers for Alpha 1, we have those
bugs that are listed as release-critical for Lucid as a whole:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs

If you aren't among the small group of people who have milestoned bugs
assigned to you, please consider helping with those bugs, using your best
judgement with regard to the alpha freeze when uploading fixes.

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

There's also plenty that can be done to help packages that aren't included
on the CDs: https://merges.ubuntu.com/main.html shows over 200 package
merges still outstanding in main for lucid, and
https://merges.ubuntu.com/universe.html shows close to 400.

Finally, if you know of new features in Lucid that you think should be
highlighted for Alpha 1, let a member of the release team know so that they
can be added to the technical overview at
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/TechnicalOverview>.

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

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-January/000363.html
[2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/+members



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