This page is intended put some structure around the various aspects of release management, and use this as a page for gathering information, processes, etc.

Active Release Status

• Long Term Support Release Schedule

  • overview: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseSchedule/LTStoLTS

Links to help track current activity of a release:

• http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/report

• http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ogasawara/weatherreport.html

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseManifestOverview

Brainstorming on better metrics to track releases quality:

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseFutureMetrics

Release Processes

These are the check lists necessary to set up the infrastructure for a release, manage it through the life cycle, get it burned to ISOs, and track after release to look for ways to improve.

New Release Kickoff

Review and update key information about a release in:

• http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam

Work through:

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewReleaseCycleProcess

Make necessary additions to:

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseSchedule

Update templates and propose initial schedule for release+2 (for advanced planning of activites/etc.)

Tracking and Management

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlphaProcess

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaProcess

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeBasedReleases

Archive Freeze Management

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaFreeze

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess

Publishing

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MilestoneProcess

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaReleaseProcess

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseProcess

  • TODO: Merge in ReleaseCandidateProcess, ReleaseChecklist

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PointReleaseProcess

  • TODO: Merge in ReleaseChecklist

  • TODO: Update with 12.04.1 planning from UDS-Q

  • LTS (Long Term Support)

• Publishing mechanics:

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/

• Other teams to interlock with:

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEC/Images/Publishing

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/ReleaseProcess

  • ReleaseValidationProcess

  • Kernel Release Manager tasks

Post Release Feedback

• TO DO: add in WIKI page of things to check at UDS.

Stable Release Updates

• TO DO: look at revamping this part based on 12.04.1

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableRelease/UpdateProcedures

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Security Updates

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures (handled by the Ubuntu Security team)

End of Life

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EndOfLifeProcess

• look into special pre-announce 2 months before for LTS

• example for LTS announce: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2009-July/000123.html

Communication

These are the mechanisms we use to communicate with each other and manage the release and its quality.

• Ubuntu Fridge Calendar

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScribesTeam/MootBot

• Targeting of Release-Critical Bugs

• WorkItemsHowto

Documentation

Updates to the documentation to accompany the release should follow the following.

Only ubuntu-doc-committers can commit to the main code.

Contributors can/should only push to the personal branches and propose a merge, or simply create a bundle and submit to the list for committers to review and accept/merge to the main.

See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation

Translations

Translations are amalgamated and handled by ubuntu-langpack team.

Process documentation is contained in langpack-o-matic. see: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-langpack/langpack-o-matic/main/view/head:/doc/operator-guide.txt

Misc

Last, but not least:

• Every new Release is a beginning of a new era. So some wish to celebrate this, to support the Distribution of their choice by Release-Parties.