Feature Freeze this Thursday

[news 28]

Dear Developers,

 

A gentle reminder to all that Feature Freeze is scheduled for this Thursday,

February 19.

 

This means that all of your Jaunty-targeted specs should be either at Beta

Available or Postponed by the end of day on Wednesday. Please make sure to

update the status of your specs. You should check that packages you care

about are at a version suitable for release.

 

Requests for freeze exceptions for main should be filed as bugs in

Launchpad against the relevant package (or just "Ubuntu" if the

package is not available yet). Once the bug is filed and the necessary

information is available, please subscribe the ubuntu-release team.

 

For universe, the motu-release team will approve new packages and upstream

version freeze exceptions between now and the Beta.

 

The MOTU release team have also delegated responsibility for a number of

package areas to their domain experts:

 

- Kubuntu: Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

- Mythbuntu: Mario Limonciello (superm1)

- Xubuntu: Cody Sommerville (cody-sommerville)

- Mozilla Team: Alexander Sack (asac)

- Ubuntu Studio:

Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá (luisbg)

Cory Kontros (_MMA_)

- Ubuntu Destkop: Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

- Ubuntu Netbook, Ubuntu MID: Steve Kowalik (StevenK)

- Ubuntu Server: Scott Kitterman (ScottK)

- Edubuntu: Jordan Mantha (LaserJock)

 

If you need a freeze exception for a universe package that falls into one of

these categories, you can coordinate directly with the respective delegates,

there is no need to subscribe motu-release.

 

Please see this wiki page for full details on freeze exception requests:

 

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess

 

Cheers,

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Steve Langasek

On behalf of the Ubuntu release team

 

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