Formalising a Release Schedule for Docs

[Phil Bull]

Hi Matt,

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 22:40 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> We've frequently discussed an informal freeze slightly earlier in the
> cycle to permit us to focus a bit longer on quality control and
> reviewing. (Looking at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseProcess I
> see that we discussed this quite some time ago!!)
> 
> Building on some work done by Connor, I've prepared this page as a
> proposal for the next release cycle. I hope that once finalised we can
> use it for each release. Currently I've allowed 3 weeks for the
> cleanup/quality control work (between UI Freeze and Documentation
> String Freeze). I think that is a decent balance, and gives us plenty
> of time to work on new documentation beforehand. It also means that we
> can get translators started on the documentation earlier, and have the
> benefit of their reviewing too.
> 
> Here's the draft page - looking forward to your comments.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/ReleaseSchedule

It looks good to me. I think it might be beneficial to add some
deadlines for planning and proposals, though. This should help us to
decide what needs to be done before it gets to three weeks before string
freeze, as usual...

Thanks,

Phil

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