Feature Freeze in effect for 14.10

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, August 30, 2014 11:35:13 Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> >> As of nowish, Feature Freeze is in effect for utopic (14.10), leading
>> >> up to the release in October.
>> >>
>> >> Don't fret if you have One Last Feature to get uploaded, and don't
>> >> panic and upload it untested today just to try to beat the clock.  We
>> >> would rather see a feature freeze exception bug and a well-tested
>> >> upload than something rushed to beat a deadline.
>> >>
>> >> That said, the vast majority of people should be winding down new
>> >> feature development now and focusing on bug fixes and polish to make
>> >> 14.10 yet another great release come October.
>> >
>> > I do hope that Libav11 is still on the table. As suggested, I've filed
>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/1360026 for
>> > tracking that transition.
>>
>> I've just uploaded libav11 to unstable, starting the transition there.
>> I don't expect too many problems. Is now a good time to start the
>> transition? As promised to Colin in the other thread, I am going to
>> keep a much closer eye on this transition compared to libav10 this
>> time.
>
> Is this the version you expect Jessie to release with?

Yes, that's the plan.

I would very much appreciate if Ubuntu would not ship libav10, because
that would make maintenance easier for me.


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard