Final Freeze for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) at 2100UTC today

Dario Ruellan dario.ruellan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 20:34:54 UTC 2014


I have two minor bugs reported. One triaged, one confirmed. Both of them
non-critical, but love to see them fixed before the release.
Something I can do about it?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1301655
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1301607


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Nicholas Skaggs <
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:

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>
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Final Freeze for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) at 2100UTC today
> Date:   Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:05:47 -0600
> From:   Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com>
> Reply-To:       ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> To:     ubuntu-devel-announce at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
>
> [ Another cycle, another shameless copy and paste email... ]
>
> For the timezone challenged, as of 2100UTC today, the archive is
> officially frozen in preparation of release candidates and the
> final release of Saucy^WTrusty Tahr in a week.  This is one hour
> from the time I hit send on this email.
>
> Uploads from here on in should fall into the following 4 bins:
>
> 1) Installer/release-critical bugs that absolutely MUST get fixed
>    lest we risk shipping a broken image that turns computers mauve
>    or sets them on fire:  Please contact the release team about
>    these bugs and upload (well-tested) solutions ASAP.
>
>    Last minute hardware enablement fixes, and pretty much anything
>    installer related that is auditable and testable also falls in
>    to this category, as our best installer testing comes in the
>    next few days, historically.
>
>    Much like last cycle, this one also had some new porting going
>    on (we do enjoy our fun toys), and like last cycle, we'll gladly
>    take FTBFS fixes pretty close to the wire, as long as they're
>    clear and easily reviewable.
>
> 2) Non-release-critical-but-nice-to-have bugfixes:  These are
>    fixes that you would absolutely feel comfortably about doing
>    as an SRU but not necessarily destabilising the release process
>    for.  Again, contact the release team, and we may slip some of
>    these in, while asking you to defer the rest to SRUs.
>
> 3) Feature additions, massive code refactoring, user interface
>    changes, non-typo string changes:  Just don't upload these, or
>    ask about them.  The time for them came and went long ago.
>
> 4) Updates to non-seeded packages:  Technically, unseeded packages
>    don't freeze until pretty much right before release.  While this
>    is true, we may still try to talk you out of pushing some huge
>    new upstream version of something, or start a library transition
>    at the zero hour.  We're only a week away from opening the next
>    release, a bit of patience (or prepping in a PPA, etc) might be
>    a decent plan.
>
> Here's hoping everyone gets on board with testing images, helping
> to fix absolutely critical bugs, donating spare creative cycles to
> the release notes, and any other way we can all contribute to yet
> another great Ubuntu release.
>
> And don't forget kids, this one's an LTS.  It's the release you'll
> install for your friends, family, and work networks and then promptly
> forget about for two years because it's just that awesome.  At least,
> it should be.  So, if it's not, let's make sure we sort that out.
>
> On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team,
>
> ... Adam Conrad
>
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