[desktop] Doc string freeze for Yakkety tomorrow

[Hannie Dumoleyn]

Op 15-09-16 om 16:12 schreef Will Cooke:
> On 15 September 2016 at 09:21, Hannie Dumoleyn 
> <lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl <mailto:lafeber-dumoleyn2 at zonnet.nl>> wrote:
>
>     My personal conclusion is that, although Unity 8 is an option in
>     Yakkety (and previous versions), it is far from perfect and far
>     less useful than Unity 7,  on a desktop or laptop system.
>     Therefore, I do not think it worthwhile to describe it in the
>     Ubuntu docs.
>
> <snip>
>
>     Op 14-09-16 om 22:13 schreef Gunnar Hjalmarsson:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         Want to mention that "DocumentationStringFreeze" for Yakkety
>         happens
>         tomorrow. After that ubuntu-docs will be passed to the
>         translators, and
>         further contents changes, except for exceptionally important
>         ones, will
>         have to wait until the Z series.
>
>         So, if there is a change, which you think should make it into
>         ubuntu-docs for yakkety, there are approximately 25 hours left
>         to act.
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was about to send the following email to the mailing list, but I 
> think it slots in to this thread:
>
> TL;DR - I agree with Hannie.
>
> I'm writing to update you on the status of Unity 8 in 16.10.  As we 
> discussed back at the start of this cycle we wanted U8 to be available 
> as an alternative session on the ISO.  That is to say that U8 will be 
> installed by default, but that it will not yet be the default session; 
> users will still log in to U7 by default but they won't have to 
> install anything special in order to test U8 as well.
>
> This work has been going on for a while, but the biggest task has been 
> getting all of the U8 dependant packages out of Universe and in to 
> Main. This work is still going on.  There were around 80 packages 
> which needed to be checked by the Security team and the MIR team 
> before they can be promoted and seeded.
>
> That work is nearing completion.  I appreciate that it's very late in 
> the cycle but this work has been going on for a long time, just the 
> amount of reviews that need to happen means this will be arriving late.
>
> QA are testing (and indeed have been testing) to make sure nothing in 
> the default session breaks with U8 installed, although we've been 
> using it like this for a while expect all the significant bugs to have 
> been found by now.
>
> I appreciate this is a significant and late change, but as I say it's 
> been in the works for a while but the amount of work has taken time to 
> get done.
>
> I think that document U8 is a very big task, and once it's available 
> for testing easily in Y that process can begin in earnest.  So I don't 
> think there are any updates required at this point, but it would be 
> great to kick of that process early next cycle.
>
> Regards, Will
>
>
>
>
>
Thanks for the update, Will.
If other doc team members agree, I suggest we will not add U8 to the 
docs version 16.10, but we should keep a close eye to the next cycle. 
Keep us informed.

Hannie

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