FinalFreeze - implications on Universe?

[Scott Kitterman]

Kate Stewart <kate.stewart at canonical.com> wrote:

>
>Dear release team members, 
>
>Based on some discussions we've been having on the other Freezes, would
>like to see if there is consensus to make FinalFreeze[1], apply to
>Universe as well as main. 
>
>   Right now the process states:
>
>"For packages in universe that aren't seeded in any of the Ubuntu
>flavors, this final freeze is nominal; packages must be manually
>accepted by the archive admins, but no additional approval is
>required."
>
>There's no timing on this,  but historically we've not been accepting
>into the archive after a certain point. 
>
>What is "seeded" is also a bit ambiguous these days as well.
>
>So...
>
>1) does it make sense to declare FinalFreeze to be freeze on all the
>archive?
>
>or 
>
>2) do we want a separate explicit universe Freeze (and be clearer what
>is ok to upload in the period between FinalFinal freeze, and this date)
>
>or
>
>3)...
>
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Thanks, Kate
>
>
>
>
>[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FinalFreeze

What problem are you trying to solve? We get a lot of good fixes in during this period, so it's not clear to me why we would want to change it.

Scott K