HardyReleaseSchedule

Revision 6 as of 2007-08-31 23:59:35

THIS IS A WORKING DRAFT. NO DATES ARE FINAL. DO NOT PUBLISH.

Please do not edit
Freezes normally happen at the start of the given date, UTC time. So last minute changes need to happen the day before.
Some background information and Q&A about the Ubuntu release process can be found on TimeBasedReleases
Compare with [http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyOne GNOME release schedule]
See the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OtherProjectSchedules Schedules of other projects]

Week	Date	Task	Status	Notes
October 2007
1	October 25th			Toolchain Uploaded
November 2007
2	November 1st			Development Summit
3	November 8th			Canonical AllHands
4	November 15th
5	November 22nd			Specifications must be finalized, Translations exported from LP
6	November 29th			Siege CD 1
December 2007
7	December 6th
8	December 13th		$Warning /!\$ DebianImportFreeze	Remaining upstream merges completed, Rebuild Test
9	December 20th			Siege CD 2
10	December 27th			Christmas Break
January 2008
11	January 3rd
12	January 10th			Siege CD 3
13	January 17th
14	January 24th			Developer Sprint?
15	January 31st			Siege CD 4
Feburary 2008
16	February 7th
17	February 14th		$Warning /!\$ FeatureFreeze, $Warning /!\$ UpstreamVersionFreeze , $Warning /!\$ ArtworkDeadlineOne, $Warning /!\$ ["UVFUniverse"]	Rebuild Test, Upgrade Testing begins
18	February 21st			Siege CD 5
19	February 28th		$Warning /!\$ ArtworkDeadlineTwo, $Warning /!\$ NewPackagesFreezeUniverse
March 2008
20	March 6th			Siege CD 6
21	March 13th		$Warning /!\$ StringFreeze
22	March 20th		$Warning /!\$ BetaFreeze, $Warning /!\$ ArtworkFinalDeadline	Rebuild Test
23	March 27th		$Warning /!\$ BetaRelease
April 2007
24	April 3rd
25	April 10th		$Warning /!\$ NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline, $Warning /!\$ KernelFreeze	Rebuild Test
26	April 17th		$Warning /!\$ ReleaseCandidate, $Warning /!\$ LanguagePackTranslationDeadline
27	April 24th		$Warning /!\$ FinalRelease	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
May 2008
28	May 1st
29	May 8th			Developer Summit?