Final Freeze for Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) at 2100UTC today

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[ This is a shameless copy-and-paste from last year ]

 

For the timezone challenged, as of 2100UTC today, the archive is

officially fozen in preparation of release candidates and the

final release of Saucy Salamander in a week. This is three

hours 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 pink

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.

 

Some people may have noticed that we're also in the process of

spinning up a new port right now (our timing is impeccable, is

it not?), so uploads with clear and targetted FTBFS fixes for

arm64 will continue to be accepted for seeded packages until

Sunday night, and for unseeded pretty much right up to release.

 

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.

 

... Adam

 

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