maverick-proposed queue freeze

[Jamie Bennett]

On 10/26/10 at 10:23pm, 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?)

As Linaro produces many varied images inevitably some of universe is
effected. Ideally I would like to see the entire archive frozen for the
12 days and people concentrate on testing what is already in the queue.
On the other hand I do realise that there is a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling to 
getting fixes out there as soon as possible which is why changes can be 
proposed and the Linaro release team will manually check to ensure they 
don't break our images. Its not the best solution in the world and I'm
very open to suggestions for improvent for the natty cycle but as the
freeze period is pretty short (and if need be can be a little shorter)
I'm not sure its much of an issue. Please correct me if I'm missing
something.

> > 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.

Right, for the natty cycle we need to add this to the Ubuntu schedule.

> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

Regards,
Jamie.