Release status update (or, Hoary and you)

[Thibaut Varene]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:51:58 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> As I mentioned in the last update, we are now in feature freeze for the
> Ubuntu 5.04 release in April.  The release schedule, as always, can be found
> here:
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/wiki/HoaryReleaseSchedule
> 
> This means that our overall focus for this phase of the release is
> stabilization.  No new features should be added to Hoary without explicit
> authorization.  The specific priorities for the release are:
> 
[snip]
> 
> The current status of existing release goals is outlined here:
> 
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryGoals
> 
> Any feature which is not on that list is not appropriate for upload to
> Hoary.  Features marked as "Deferred" or otherwise inactive are also
> inappropriate for Hoary.  The following original Hoary goals (and others,
> see HoaryGoals) are officially deferred to the next release:
> 
> - USplash (sorry, folks, but it didn't make the cut)
> - Launchpad integration (server-side infrastructure isn't ready yet)
> 
> There are a few projects which are lacking status updates; some of those are
> likely to be deferred as well, as the situation unfolds.  We're getting down
> to the bare metal, with the Hoary preview release scheduled for three weeks
> from today, and it's time to give Hoary a bath and make it presentable.
> 
> If you have any questions about the release or your role in it, please
> follow up here or email me off-list.

Hi

I see no mention anywhere of the IA64 port. What's the big idea?

As of yesterday, we seem to have a pretty decent installer (see James'
last reports, the mptscsih issue is expected to be fixed as of
yesterday).

The only pending "issue" on ia64 that I know of is the OpenOffice
case. As I told Colin on IRC, OpenOffice has never been working on
ia64, so there wouldn't be any regression there. Colin pointed me at
the AMD64 trick, which we're going to try to reproduce on ia64 by the
end of the week hopefully.

Still, I'd like to know what's the decided fate of the port WRT Hoary
release. If it's already scheduled for Hoary+1, i can relax a bit :-P

Thx

-- 
Thibaut VARENE
Ubuntu, Debian and Kernel Hacker

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