OpenStack Liberty/Ubuntu Wily release timings

[James Page]

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Hi Iain

On 01/09/15 12:57, Iain Lane wrote:
>>> For the Ubuntu Wily development cycle, we have a little
>>> breathing space compared to Vivid in that we're going to
>>> release a week after OpenStack does upstream on the 15th
>>> October (see [0]), thus avoiding zero-day SRU's as we had to
>>> undertake last cycle.
>>> 
>>> In-line with previous releases we'll need to upload further
>>> beta's and release candidates as required for all core
>>> OpenStack projects (and direct dependencies managed under the
>>> OpenStack umbrella) between now and the 15th of October; this
>>> email is to ensure that the release team are aware of this
>>> activity and are happy to continue with the approach taken in
>>> previous Ubuntu releases.
> There's a Feature Freeze listed there - so do you think this will
> need some exception to the Ubuntu release process after this comes
> into effect?

The two feature freeze dates are about 2 weeks apart (20th Aug vs 1st
September); We should see beta 3 this week and yes I would expect some
new features for this final milestone release - so implicitly we do
need a freeze exception, but in reality I'd not want todo this
explicitly feature by feature in each project; unpicking a feature
from our packages is not normally practical.

> (For future cycles, maybe we should align our FF dates?)

Although we are generally aligned in terms of release schedule, that
could be tricky due to drift either way each cycle on actual release
dates.  I'm not sure we want to tie dates together to tightly - we've
managed it effectively in the past without complete alignment.


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James Page
Ubuntu and Debian Developer
james.page at ubuntu.com
jamespage at debian.org
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