Ubuntu 9.04 beta approaching

[news 28]

The Ubuntu 9.04 beta release is approaching, scheduled for March 26th

(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseSchedule). Please refer to the

milestone list in Launchpad for a list of outstanding items:

 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+bugs?field.milestone=2203

 

If you have bugs on this list, please fix them at the earliest possible

opportunity, or (in consultation with other developers and the Ubuntu QA

team) un-milestone them if they are not required for beta. If you have

bugs you think should be on this list, talk with the Ubuntu QA team or the

Ubuntu release team about having them milestoned.

 

Please also do not lose sight of the list of bugs affecting the release as a

whole:

 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+bugs

 

The beta freeze will begin tomorrow, March 19th; after that point uploads

will require approval from the release team, which will generally only

be granted if they fix beta-critical bugs.

 

Over the next few days, please pay attention to eliminating

inconsistencies in the archive, including:

 

http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/testing/jaunty_probs.html

uninstallable packages in main and restricted

 

http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/NBS/

obsolete packages which still have reverse-dependencies

 

Archive administrators should spend time ensuring that any pending

mainuniverse component changes have been processed

(http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches.txt).

Developers, if you are waiting for something on this list, please help out

by filing good main inclusion reports.

 

Thanks,

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Steve Langasek

On behalf of the Ubuntu release team

 

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