request for freeze exception for Ubuntu Touch packages

[Steve Langasek]

Hi folks,

Since it's a bit early yet for feature freeze exceptions, I thought it might
be a good idea to explicitly draw the list's attention to an FFe I've just
filed:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1208989

The set of features targeted for Ubuntu Touch in 13.10 is not going to be
fully landed by feature freeze.  Rather than having the release team spend
time on per-feature, per-package FFe requests for this, I'd like to request
a blanket FFe for all the packages that are in the Ubuntu Touch images but
not in other flavor images.  I think this is both consistent with our
previous post-FF tracking of other upstreams with rigorous upstream QA
processes (Ubuntu Touch has the most thorough QA process I've seen on any
Open Source project of this magnitude), and makes sense given that Ubuntu
Touch is a new project without existing users that need to be protected from
regressions.

Note that I am proposing a blanket FFe that includes packages for which
Canonical is not the upstream.  I think this is still reasonable, since:

 - those packages will still be covered by the integration testing done on
   the Ubuntu Touch images
 - those packages are not used on the images of other flavors
 - almost none of those packages are actually going to be changed between
   now and release (FFe or not).

Does this sound like an OK plan?

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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