EFF & Privacy; hopefully Ubuntu will listen to users

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, November 05, 2012 02:27:06 PM Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 13:58 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > I don't know if it's been done before or not, but perhaps the Release
> > > Team, and Tech Board, should take up any concerns related to some of the
> > > Canonical projects' involvement in that process, with the appropriate
> > > members of Canonical staff, including Mark (who is on TB anyway). Again,
> > > another discussion that would have been great to have at UDS with
> > > everyone in the same room, but which seems to perpetually get
> > > complaints, and perhaps not discussed at appropriate times.
> > 
> > It was extensively discussed at UDS-R and I believe things will go better
> > in the next cycle.  I realize that Mark's SABDFL veto is part of existing
> > Ubuntu processes.  I don't have any disagreement with his authority to do
> > so.  I do think it is mistaken for development teams (generally, but not
> > inevitable) from inside Canonical that plan on getting in that way.
> 
> Great. I know for Ubuntu One at least, we try to align with the schedule
> and meet the freeze deadlines and requirements as best as possible,
> though sometimes we do have to slip. However, I also push for my team at
> least to not have to do freeze exceptions unless it's absolutely
> required, and try to be as strict about what we can or can't put in our
> stable branches (and the accompanying releases) at that point, as the
> SRU and release teams would be, since I'm the one doing the packaging
> for all our projects.

In case you missed the sessions, the short version of the discussion is that 
we've moved feature freeze to the right to give more development time (IIRC 3 
weeks), but the release team will be substantially more strict about what it 
gives an exception to this next cycle.

Scott K