Clarifying Feature Freeze Definition
Kate Stewart
kate.stewart at canonical.com
Fri Aug 5 19:25:11 UTC 2011
On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 12:05 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote:
> On 08/05/2011 11:17 AM, Kate Stewart wrote:
> > Dear Release Team members, and others interested,
> >
> > In asking around and after reading the documentation I'm hearing some
> > varied opinions of what it actually means to feature freeze. On reading
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze, it seems to not be as specific
> > as needed.
> >
> > "At this point we stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and
> > concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release."
> >
> > My expectation is that the freeze is for all main packages, and seeded
> > universe packages.
> Generally, it's been applied to the whole archive, but the barrier to an
> FFe for an unseeded and non-main package has been lower WRT new upstream
> versions for leaf packages. There are still a number of libs in
> universe that are unseeded and could wreak havoc on a small portion of
> the archive.
Thanks Micah.
That makes it simpler to explain to folks as well, so will adjust my
expectations to be the entire archive.
Kate
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