Feature Freeze in effect for 14.10

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday, August 30, 2014 12:46:19 Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 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.

That makes sense.  Let's see how the first day or two goes in Debian and then 
decide.

Scott K