Point Release process addition

[Sebastien Bacher]

Hey Brian,

First it seems a bit short notice to give that warning a week before the 
milestone, even if the current report indicates there should be no 
practical issue it would be nice to have such changes discussed more in 
advance in the futur

And I've also some questions

1. Are we confident those issues are currently visible to owning teams? 
I think only the uploader get notified today, maybe it would make sense 
to also reports bugs and tag those rls-...-incoming as we do for archive 
rebuilds?

2. Are you going to make stakeholders part of the decision process and 
if so how?

3. If you decide to revert back to the previous version, what does it 
mean for users who already got the upgrade? Do we let them on a version 
we decided was buggy and should be reverted? If that's the case 
shouldn't we try to rather bump the revision to something newer to 
ensure everyone is moved out the buggy version?

Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher

Le 26/07/2022 à 01:05, Brian Murray a écrit :
> With the imminent point release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, I wanted to let
> everyone know of an addition to the point release process[1] followed by
> the Ubuntu Release team.
>
> The team will evaluate the packages currently phasing[2] which are also
> on any installation media and make a decision as to whether the packages
> should be fully phased or if the package should be reverted back to the
> prior version.
>
> The point of doing this is to ensure that we are not creating an image
> (and subsequently an installed system) with a package version which
> contains a regression in that package.
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PointReleaseProcess
> [2] https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/phased-updates.html
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Brian Murray
> on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team
>