Lunar Lobster (23.04) Final Freeze

[Utkarsh Gupta]

The final freeze for Lunar Lobster has now been reached and we are
heading into the final stretch of the release cycle with the release
of Ubuntu 23.04 next week.

The current uploads in the queue will be reviewed and either accepted
or rejected as appropriate by pre-freeze standards, but anything from
here on should fit two broad categories:

1) Release critical bugs that affect images, installers, or otherwise
   can't be fixed easily post-release.

2) Bug fixes that would be suitable for post-release SRUs, which we may
   choose to accept, reject, or shunt to -updates for 0-day SRUs on a
   case-by-case basis. This second case should have SRU bugs filed with
   the appropriate template, and be referenced from the changelog.

For unseeded packages that aren't on any media or in any supported
sets, it's still more or less a free-for-all, but do take care not to
upload changes that you can't readily validate before release. That
is, ask yourself if the current state is "good enough", compared to
the burden of trying to fix all the bugs you might accidentally be
introducing with your shiny new upload.

We will shut down cronjobs and spin some RC images over the next
couple of days (maybe even on Friday) once the archive and
proposed-migration have settled a bit, and we expect everyone with a
vested interest in a flavour (or two) and a few spare hours here and
there to get to testing to make sure we have another uneventful
release next week. Panic, and even more so last minute panic, is never
fun.


On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team,
Utkarsh