[g2005-english] Breezy schedule

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:20:35AM +0200, Carlos Parra Camargo wrote:
>   Having a look at the breezy schedule [1], i realized that most of the
> links (except PreviewFreeze) are empty pages.
> 
> September 1st PreviewFreeze, StringFreeze 
> September 8th PreviewRelease, DocumentationStringFreeze 
> September 29th ArtworkDeadline, NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline,
> KernelFreeze 
> October 6th ReleaseCandidate, LanguagePackTranslationDeadline 
> October 13th FinalRelease
> 
>   Is this schedule updated?
> 
>   Could any body explain what happens at the repositories, during
> PreviewFreeze, PreviewRelease, KernelFreeze, ReleaseCandidate and
> FinalRelease?

PreviewFreeze is a week-long period of very cautious bugfixing in
preparation for the preview release.

The preview release is a beta-quality pre-release one month before the final
release.

The kernel freeze is a deadline for kernel updates, since they require
several lockstep actions which must be folded into the CD building process.

The release candidate is a production-quality pre-release one week before
the final release.

The final release is the finished product which is distributed with an
official Ubuntu release number (in this case, 5.10).

(CCing the doc team in case someone is interested in updating the wiki
documentation on this process)

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 - mdz