ReleaseCycle

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People

Review our experiences with the existing release strategy and discuss possible improvements

Everybody loves newer software
- The backports mess
- What are the valid use cases, and can we accomodate them within Ubuntu?
  - Making new packages available to users of stable releases
  - Making new versions of existing packages available to users of stable releases (at what granularity?)
Phases of freeze
Release rollup / checklist items
- Artwork
- Translations
  - String freeze
  - Installer translations
  - Non-langpack translations
  - Langpack translations
- Documentation
  - Screenshots
  - Translations?
  - Behaviour changes
- Kernel
- Uploads of packages which go on the CD
- Uploads to main
- Uploads to universe

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   * Making new packages available to users of stable releases
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+ * Release rollup / checklist items
  * Artwork
  * Translations
   * String freeze
   * Installer translations
   * Non-langpack translations
   * Langpack translations
  * Documentation
   * Screenshots
   * Translations?
   * Behaviour changes
  * Kernel
  * Uploads of packages which go on the CD
  * Uploads to main
  * Uploads to universe