ReleaseCycle

Revision 5 as of 2005-04-12 20:24:05

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People

Goal

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

Requirements

Agenda

  • Everybody loves newer software
    • The backports mess
    • What is the valid use case here, and can we accomodate it within Ubuntu?
    • Making new packages (as opposed to new versions) more accessible to users of stable releases
  • Phases of freeze
  • Release rollup / checklist items
    • Artwork
    • Translations
      • String freeze
      • Installer translations
      • Non-langpack translations
      • Langpack translations
    • Kernel
    • Uploads of packages which go on the CD
    • Uploads to main
    • Uploads to universe

Pre-Work