A Case for Modifying the Ubuntu Release Schedule

[Andrew SB]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Robbie Williamson
<robbie.williamson at canonical.com> wrote:
> All the discussion around 10.10.10 and cadence pushed me to take a
> deeper look at the schedule of past releases...to see how close to a
> cadence we actually are.  Interestingly enough, I found that while the
> releases were in the same month (and towards the end), the amount of
> development and bug fix time varied greatly. Here's some pertinent data:

Thanks for this detailed look into the reality of the release
schedule. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend UDS this time
around. Is there a place were the discussion around 10.10.10 has been
collected so far? A blueprint or gobby notes? Is the idea simply that
it's a cool number and has marketing significance?

>
> Both cycles will have approximately the same amount of pre-UDS,
> development, bug fixing, and cleanup times.  I will point out that the
> schedules ignore the gnome release schedule, and if this is a large
> issue...the proposal breaks.  I'd like to point out that an interesting
> side-effect of this proposal, is that I can make the schedule coloring
> actually relevant, i.e. based on key freeze points in the schedule.

According to: http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone

GNOME 3.0.0 stable release date is Sep 29th. With the first bug fixes
rolling out with GNOME 3.0.1 on Oct 27th, most likely too late to make
the release either way. So that seems like a bit of a push, but still
quite do-able.

Thanks,

Andrew SB