maverick-proposed queue freeze

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:23:26 pm Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
> 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?)

There isn't a Linaro package set, AFAIK.  From what I know of their interests, 
I expect this will directly affect some packages in Universe.  I'm not on the 
SRU team, so I didn't follow this closely, so I'm not the best person to 
describe the details of the plan.

> > 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.

At the time the Maverick schedule was approved, this requirement didn't exist, 
so it's not in the Maverick schedule (we should check the Natty schedule and 
get this added if it's not there).  This was discussed with the Ubuntu SRU 
team on ubuntu-release at l.u.c.  It's my understanding (I'm subscribed to the 
list due to being on the release team, so I was aware of this, but not focused 
on it), that there was an intent to communicate this earlier.  I'm not sure 
why this didn't happen, but I think the positive intent was there for exactly 
what you are asking for.

Scott K