Release Team Members: input requested...

[Iain Lane]

Hi there,

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:47:27AM -0500, Kate Stewart wrote:
> […]
> Process pages [2] are calling for a focal point to be established for
> the FFEs reviews for universe
> 
> If this is the last beta before ReleaseCandidateProcess, 
>       * Work with universe/multiverse community to identify delegates to
>         approve Feature Freeze Exceptions, in addition to ubuntu-release
>         until the date of Final Freeze for universe. 

I don't think it's "in addition to ubuntu-release", rather that some
members of the release team will watch out for queries in the MOTU IRC
channel.

>       * Set the Final Freeze date (typically at release minus 5 days)
>         for universe/multiverse for the packages that are NOT found on
>         any installation media. 

Last time we had UnseededUniverseFinalFreeze at release minus 1.5 days.
I think it worked fine. This is also what the release schedule says, and
what you (Kate) said earlier in the thread, so I'm a bit confused on
this point.

That said, I wouldn't mind tightening up our definition here a bit.
We're using UUFF to mean "no more uploads after this point", which is a
bit different to what Final Freeze means normally: "RC uploads only". It
might be valuable to establish a cutoff for Universe FFes at Final
Freeze time and a cutoff for non-world-ending bugfixes at UUFF time so
that we can all focus on bug fixing after final freeze, albeit with a
slightly lower standard for unseeded universe until UUFF.

>       * Broadcast universe/multiverse delegates and final freeze date to
>         ubuntu-devel-discuss and ubuntu-devel-announce. 

As above, I don't think we need specific delegates. Just let people know
that release team members will be watching #ubuntu-motu on a best-effort
basis and that questions should be addressed there. 

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
PhD student                                       [ ial at cs.nott.ac.uk ]
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