Implementation of Release Schedule changes from vUDS and IRC

[jackyu at ubuntukylin.com]

Thanks. It makes more sense.  UbuntuKylin will be opt-in for all.



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Jack Yu
UbuntuKylin Team



At 2013-06-14 23:43:08,"Adam Conrad" <adconrad at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>At vUDS, we discussed a few release schedule changes for Saucy, based
>on the fact that the original schedule was copied from a template and
>could do with some tweaking.  Yesterday, on IRC, we discussed this
>further to make sure everyone was on the same page, and the following
>changes have been applied, as agreed to both at vUDS and on IRC:
>
>- Dropped Alpha3
>- Move Alpha1/2 to wk9/13
>- Move FeatureFreeze to Beta1Freeze
>- Move DocStringFreeze to FinalBetaFreeze
>
>The last two are probably not contentious in the least.  It didn't
>make much sense to have FF be a week out from yet another freeze, so
>we bumped it down to give everyone an extra week.  It also didn't
>make much sense to have a doc string freeze after final beta freeze,
>so that was moved up a week to match.
>
>As for the alphas, one might note that, in raring, we only had two
>alphas, and in saucy, we had an A3 dangerously close to A2.  This was
>widely regarded as an accident, and A3 has been completely removed
>from the schedule.
>
>To make the cadence from A1 to A2 to B1 freeze a bit more pleasant,
>and backfill gaps from A3 disappearing (and a few other arguments put
>forward here and there), A1 and A2 have been slipped a week later in
>the schedule.  Thanks to ScottK and Riddell for their input on this,
>and everyone else for having patience while we sorted out if this
>would be a disastrous change.
>
>Enjoy the extra week of breathing room, and we'll see everyone who's
>participating in Alpha1 shortly. :)
>
>... Adam
>
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