ReleaseCycle
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Release Cycle
Status
Created: Date(2005-04-23T11:46:01Z) by MattZimmermanBR
People: MattZimmermanLead, ColinWatsonSecondBR
Contributors: MattZimmermanBR
Interested: JorgeBernalBR
Status: BrainDump, BreezyGoal, UduBof, DistroSpecificationBR
Branch: BR
Malone Bug: BR
Packages: BR
Depends: BR
UduSessions: 1, 4, 8, etc BR
Introduction
Review our experiences with the existing release strategy and discuss possible improvements
Rationale
Scope and Use Cases
Implementation Plan
Data Preservation and Migration
Packages Affected
User Interface Requirements
Outstanding Issues
UDU BOF Agenda
- 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