First opt-in alpha release for Raring

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, November 30, 2012 11:46:53 AM Jonathan Carter wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 12-11-30 11:10 AM, Julien Lavergne wrote:
> > Le 11/29/2012 10:34 PM, Stéphane Graber a écrit :
> >> So if you are a product lead please reply to this e-mail by Monday 21:00
> >> UTC with whether you'll be participating or not, what products and
> >> architectures you plan on releasing and who will be your release
> >> contact(s) for this milestone.
> > 
> > Lubuntu will not do any Alpha this cycle.
> 
> Due to additional paperwork that we'd have to take on in order to
> release an alpha, we decided to opt out as well for Edubuntu.
> 
> -Jonathan, on behalf of the Edubuntu release team

Since this opt-in milestone approach is new, I think it's important to 
understand the procedural or 'paperwork' barriers that let Edubuntu to choose 
not to participate.  Would you please elaborate?

Scott K