HardyReleaseSchedule

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Hardy schedule as iCal Ubuntu schedule as iCal

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			Alpha 1
December 2007
7	December 6th
8	December 13th		$Warning /!\$ DebianImportFreeze	Remaining upstream merges completed, Rebuild Test
9	December 20th			Alpha 2
10	December 27th			Christmas Break
January 2008
11	January 3rd
12	January 10th			Alpha 3
13	January 17th
14	January 24th			Developer Sprint
15	January 31st			Alpha 4
Feburary 2008
16	February 7th
17	February 14th		$Warning /!\$ FeatureFreeze, $Warning /!\$ ArtworkDeadlineOne	Rebuild Test, Upgrade Testing begins
18	February 21st			Alpha 5
19	February 28th		$Warning /!\$ UserInterfaceFreeze, $Warning /!\$ ArtworkDeadlineTwo
March 2008
20	March 6th			Alpha 6
21	March 13th		$Warning /!\$ BetaFreeze, $Warning /!\$ HardyArtworkFinalDeadline	Rebuild Test
22	March 20th		$Warning /!\$ BetaRelease, $Warning /!\$ DocumentationStringFreeze	Beta
23	March 27th
April 2008
24	April 3rd
25	April 10th		$Warning /!\$ NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline, $Warning /!\$ KernelFreeze, $Warning /!\$ FinalFreeze	Rebuild Test
26	April 17th		$Warning /!\$ ReleaseCandidate, $Warning /!\$ LanguagePackTranslationDeadline
27	April 24th		$Warning /!\$ FinalRelease	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
May 2008
28	May 1st			hardware enablement targets installed and on-line
29	May 8th
30	May 15th
31	May 22nd			Developer Summit
32	May 29th			bug nomination deadline; deadline for initial uploads to hardy-proposed
June 2008
33	June 5th
34	June 12th
35	June 19th
36	June 26th
July 2008
37	July 3rd			$Warning /!\$ Ubuntu 8.04.1
...
January 2009
	January 22nd			$Warning /!\$ Ubuntu 8.04.2
...
July 2009
	July 16th			$Warning /!\$ Ubuntu 8.04.3
...
January 2010
	January 28			$Warning /!\$ Ubuntu 8.04.4

Point releases will cease once Ubuntu 10.04 is released.

HardyReleaseSchedule (last edited 2010-01-08 07:50:44 by minbar)