update cadence & backlog management for Ubuntu on Phones

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Fri Sep 12 00:32:36 UTC 2014


On Thursday, September 11, 2014 09:30:32 Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 22:34 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 16:06 -0600, Oliver Ries wrote:
> > > Update Cadence:
> > > 
> > > * System components:
> > >  - OTA (over the air) updates in 4 week iterations, starting at
> > > 
> > > retail date
> > > 
> > >  - Content
> > >  
> > >   - Critical/High bug fixes that are not leading to data loss or
> > > 
> > > loss of major functionality
> > > 
> > >   - UX fixes
> > >   - Prioritized feature backlog
> > 
> > I'm a bit confused here with the feature backlog. Currently we're
> > landing fixes in Utopic, and then if appropriate syncing those fixes
> > over to the RTM branch to get into the production images. But features
> > couldn't land in Utopic because it's in feature freeze.
> 
> Features can still land in Utopic with a freeze exception. There's also
> the difference in level of support for main and universe, such that
> stuff in universe can be much more lax about freezes, given it is not in
> the default Ubuntu install and not "supported" in the same way main is.

This is incorrect.

Scott K



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