Release Blocker Packages

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Mon Oct 31 13:15:37 UTC 2011


On 10/20/2011 11:46 AM, Kate Stewart wrote:
>
> Hi Release Team members,
>
>     Am trying to do some pre-planning for Precise, and figure out which
> packages during oneiric were considered to have had blocker bugs and had
> to be must fixed for certain milestones and the release (ie. we've
> required last minute respins in the frozen windows, could not be fixed
> with 0-day SRUs, etc. )
>
> Some of the packages that come to mind are:
>
> compiz
> lightdm
> linux
> update-manager
> ubiquity
> unity
> wubi
>
> Are there others that should be added to the above list?

I don't have a list of packages in mind, but functionally, bugs that 
prevent network access after install should be considered release 
blockers since one usually needs a network to fix a problem.

Scott K




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