Fwd: Final Freeze for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) at 2100UTC today

[Nicholas Skaggs]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Final Freeze for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) at 2100UTC today
Date: 	Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:05:47 -0600
From: 	Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com>
Reply-To: 	ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
To: 	ubuntu-devel-announce at lists.ubuntu.com



[ Another cycle, another shameless copy and paste email... ]

For the timezone challenged, as of 2100UTC today, the archive is
officially frozen in preparation of release candidates and the
final release of Saucy^WTrusty Tahr in a week.  This is one hour
from the time I hit send on this email.

Uploads from here on in should fall into the following 4 bins:

1) Installer/release-critical bugs that absolutely MUST get fixed
    lest we risk shipping a broken image that turns computers mauve
    or sets them on fire:  Please contact the release team about
    these bugs and upload (well-tested) solutions ASAP.

    Last minute hardware enablement fixes, and pretty much anything
    installer related that is auditable and testable also falls in
    to this category, as our best installer testing comes in the
    next few days, historically.

    Much like last cycle, this one also had some new porting going
    on (we do enjoy our fun toys), and like last cycle, we'll gladly
    take FTBFS fixes pretty close to the wire, as long as they're
    clear and easily reviewable.

2) Non-release-critical-but-nice-to-have bugfixes:  These are
    fixes that you would absolutely feel comfortably about doing
    as an SRU but not necessarily destabilising the release process
    for.  Again, contact the release team, and we may slip some of
    these in, while asking you to defer the rest to SRUs.

3) Feature additions, massive code refactoring, user interface
    changes, non-typo string changes:  Just don't upload these, or
    ask about them.  The time for them came and went long ago.

4) Updates to non-seeded packages:  Technically, unseeded packages
    don't freeze until pretty much right before release.  While this
    is true, we may still try to talk you out of pushing some huge
    new upstream version of something, or start a library transition
    at the zero hour.  We're only a week away from opening the next
    release, a bit of patience (or prepping in a PPA, etc) might be
    a decent plan.

Here's hoping everyone gets on board with testing images, helping
to fix absolutely critical bugs, donating spare creative cycles to
the release notes, and any other way we can all contribute to yet
another great Ubuntu release.

And don't forget kids, this one's an LTS.  It's the release you'll
install for your friends, family, and work networks and then promptly
forget about for two years because it's just that awesome.  At least,
it should be.  So, if it's not, let's make sure we sort that out.

On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team,

... Adam Conrad


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