Is a 16.04 alpha 2 needed?

[Walter Lapchynski]

I think it's worthwhile doing alphas, especially for an LTS version. So
Lubuntu would like to participate. I'd certainly love not to have to sign
up for Release Tasks, but if I must…

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> According to <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseSchedule>, this
> is
> the week we would plan to do Alpha 2 for Xenial if there was a need for
> one.
>
> And according to <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseTaskSignup>,
> no
> one has signed up to do any of the work for this particular alpha
> milestone.
>
> Is this alpha needed by any of the teams?  The thought some time ago was
> that the continuous installability guarantees of proposed-migration would
> make specific alpha milestones unnecessary.  The Ubuntu team have been
> making use of this now for several cycles to great effect.  Are other
> flavors still finding these alphas necessary, or is the system of
> continuously-installable images working for you?  Does someone wish to step
> forward to drive alpha 2?
>
> Thanks,
> --
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