new packages freeze policy

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday 08 September 2007 00:40, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 23:00 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote:
> > On 2007-08-31 00:12:41 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > > On this note, I got completely confused by the deadline.  I read that
> > > the upstream version freeze deadline was August 30th, so I planned to
> > > upload my packages on the 30th.
> >
> > I guess you mixed up UpstreamVersionFreeze and NewPackage for Universe
> > Freeze. The first was already on August 16th.
>
> Could someone remind me the purpose of this distinction?  Why should
> newer, buggier packages be given a later freeze time?
>
Since they are new to Ubuntu, there is no risk of regression from a previous 
release.

Scott K