Release management thoughts for Dapper Drake

Mark Shuttleworth mark at ubuntu.com
Mon Oct 17 18:09:03 CDT 2005


Ruben Vermeersch wrote:

>Does this also mean that there will be no huge breakages etc, in other
>words: the dapper working branch will be a much safer place then the
>breezy branch. Making sure it doesn't break (too much) right from the
>start sounds like a great way to attract more testers.
>  
>
One of the reasons to break Breezy so hard early on was to get big
chunks in so we would NOT have to get them into Dapper. That said, a
development release pre-preview is likely to be a hairy place to hang
out, always, and we need to communicate that clearly.



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