Clarifying Feature Freeze Definition

[Kate Stewart]

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