Settling on Final Freeze Date for Natty

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:38:54 am Kate Stewart wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 23:23 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > On Monday, March 28, 2011 10:52:48 pm Kate Stewart wrote:
> > > Thanks for the good suggestions Scott.
> > > 
> > > Based on discussion on IRC channels as well as your note, the schedule
> > > for next month will be:
> > > 
> > > Beta 1 freeze - was left as is on 3/24 - hard freeze (we ne
> > > Beta 1 release - 3/31
> > > Archive open for final bug fixes and FFEs
> > > Beta 2 freeze - 4/11 (at UTC 09:00 ) - hard freeze
> > > Beta 2 release - 4/14
> > 
> > Main/Seeded Final Freeze 14 days
> > Unseeded Universe/Multiverse Freeze - 4/26 (at UTC 12:00)
> > Unseeded Universe/Multiverse Final Freeze - 2 days
> > 
> > > Natty release 4/28
> > > Oneiric opens for development 4/29
> > > 
> > > If anyone sees any reasons why this won't work, please add to the
> > > thread - otherwise will be using this schedule.
> 
> Good clarification between Main/Seeded and Unseeded universe.  Thanks!
> 
> > I've added the unseeded Universe/Multiverse milestone I mentioned in an
> > earlier paragraph to your proposal.  I would also retitle "Oneiric opens
> > for development" as it will be a bit after release before it's open for
> > general development.  I would suggest "Oneiric toolchain preparations
> > begin" as an alternative.
> 
> It is opening up of the archive to accept input, and switching the
> development release over to it on day+1 per
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewReleaseCycleProcess. Toolchain prep should be
> beginning now, per the checklist in the NewReleaseCycleProcess
> checklist ;)

Call it what you will, traditionally "Open for development" means generally 
open for developers to upload packages.  That won't happen on the 29th, so I'd 
suggest a different term.

Scott K