Did we really release 8.04?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:04:05AM -0500, Justin Dugger wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:33 AM, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > For 8.04, a deliberate effort was made by Canonical to continue
> > stabilization in response to real-world testing after the 8.04 release.  In
> > practice, many issues which affect users are only discovered when end users
> > begin to upgrade and use the new release on a daily basis, and for this
> > release, we prepared a comprehensive response to this feedback.
> >
> > If you were unaware that this was going on, perhaps we could do a better job
> > of communicating this type of effort with the public.
> 
> What prompted such a decision?  Was it expected that every release
> needs this effort, or simply this specific one?

This was part of an effort to align LTS with the expectations of its users,
and so was driven by the fact that 8.04 is an LTS release.

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 - mdz