RaringReleaseSchedule

Week

Date (Thursday)

Planning Week 1-5

October 2012

1

October 25th

(OK) Announce Brainstorming for this release at the ubuntu-studio-devel mail list

November 2012

2

November 1st

Ubuntu Developer Summit. zequence attended. UbuntuStudio/UDS-R-PadNotes

3

November 8th

4

November 15th

(OK) Register blueprints at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu using this template, and use the results from the previous brainstorming discussions to create workitems for these blueprints (see UbuntuStudio/Blueprints to get an overview of existing blueprints)

5

November 22nd

Warning /!\ FeatureDefinitionFreeze All blueprints for the development release need to have been registered and then approved by someone at the Ubuntu Release Team

Week

Date (Thursday)

Development Week 6-22

6

November 29th

(OK) Begin development and testing. Report bugs as far upstream as possible. Work with appplication developers and Debian maintainers, especially the Debian Multimedia Team to solve bugs for multimedia debian packages.

December 2012

7

December 6th

8

December 13th

9

December 20th

10

December 27th

January 2013

11

January 3rd

12

January 10th

13

January 17th

14

January 24th

15

January 31st

February 2013

16

February 7th

17

February 14th

Warning /!\ Debian Import Freeze occurs here, which means any bugfixes will need special treatment. Possibly by adding patches to the Ubuntu package

18

February 21st

19

February 28th

March 2013

20

March 7th

Warning /!\ FeatureFreeze means no new uploads of existing packages, unless it is a critical bugfix

21

March 14th

22

March 21st

Week

Date (Thursday)

Beta Testing Week 23-26

23

March 28th

Warning /!\ FinalBetaFreeze Warning /!\ UserInterfaceFreeze - No more changes until the final Beta is released.

April 2013

24

April 4th

Warning /!\ FinalBetaRelease - Do thorough testing with this ISO and make sure any critical bugs get fixed.

25

April 11th

Warning /!\ KernelFreeze - no more kernel changes

26

April 18th

Warning /!\ FinalFreeze, Warning /!\ ReleaseCandidate prepare PR announcements for the new release

Week

Date (Thursday)

Final Release Week 27

27

April 25th

Warning /!\ FinalRelease Ubuntu Ubuntu 13.04

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