maverick-proposed queue freeze

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jamie Bennett
<jamie.bennett at linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to the Linaro release process [1] the maverick-proposed queue
> will be frozen tomorrow. After this date no uploads should be accepted
> for -proposed until the queue unfreezes on 8th November 2010 without
> consultation with the Linaro release team [2]. The total freeze time
> will be 12 days.
>
> The freeze process was agreed at the platform sprint in Prague and has
> benefits for both Ubuntu and Linaro. This period should be used to flush
> the -proposed queue, testing, verifying and promoting to
> maverick-updates what is currently there. If you have an update that
> really must be added to the queue in the next 12 days please email the
> team[3] for feedback.

Is this for the entire archive; will it effect Universe/un-seed
packages as well? (BTW: Is there a Linaro package set? Is there a
canonical list of package sets anywhere?)

> The Linaro Release Candidate images will be created on the 1st November
> and the images will be verified until Final Release on the 10th
> November.

It might be nice if this information is included in the Ubuntu release
schedule as well for Ubuntu developers like myself who aren't
following Linaro development closely as this impacts our work.

Thanks,

Andrew Starr-Bochicchio