SaucyReleaseSchedule

Week

Date (Thursday)

Planning Week 1-5

May 2013

1

May 2nd

Announce Brainstorming for this release at the ubuntu-studio-devel mail list, S toolchain uploaded to Ubuntu archive

2

May 9th

3

May 16th

Ubuntu (Virtual) Developer Summit, May 14th-15th.

4

May 23rd

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

May 30th

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 6-20

June 2013

6

June 6th

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.

7

June 13th

8

June 20th

9

June 27th

July 2013

10

July 4th

11

July 11th

12

July 18th

13

July 25th

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

August 2013

14

August 1st

15

August 8th

16

August 15th

17

August 22nd

Ubuntu Ubuntu Studio 12.04.3 LTS Point Release

18

August 29th

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

September 2013

19

September 5th

20

September 12th

Week

Date (Thursday)

Beta Testing Week 21-24

21

September 19th

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

22

September 26th

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

October 2013

23

October 3rd

Warning /!\ KernelFreeze - no more kernel changes

24

October 10th

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

Week

Date (Thursday)

Final Release Week 25

25

October 17th

Warning /!\ FinalRelease Ubuntu Ubuntu Studio 13.10

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