Release management thoughts for Dapper Drake

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Ivan Krstic">

> In other words, if we let in the new versions of the exceptions you
> proposed, I'm not convinced that even freezing the rest of main completely
> would go a long way towards letting us put out a much more supportable
> release.

Reducing the general churn will let us concentrate on further stabilisation
of the frozen set, and managing the changes in those we upgrade. The design
of our release process is based on highly structured lockdown freeze points;
this suggestion just builds upon that structure - but over the lifetime of
two development cycles (and benefiting from exposure of the stable release).

> You didn't comment on adding some extra time to the release cycle until
> the release becomes enterprise-ready: I'm interested to hear what you
> think.

I don't think we should deviate from our six month release cycle, and would
not ever support "when it's ready" for an Ubuntu release. We could start our
lockdown freezes much earlier in the process, but even then, I'd still like
to see us dodge churn.

- Jeff

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