Dear developers, With the DebianImportFreeze now in effect[1], it's time to nudge another baby heron out of the nest and hope it flies better than this broken metaphor: it's time for Hardy Alpha 2.
The second alpha for Hardy Heron is scheduled for Thursday, December 20. Given the success of the self-imposed freeze[2] used for Alpha 1, we will continue with this policy for Alpha 2. Once again, we are asking you the developers to refrain from uploading packages between Tuesday and Thursday which don't bring us closer to releasing the alpha, so that these days can be used for settling the archive and fixing any remaining showstoppers. With the round of installer problems that delayed Alpha 1 shaken out, we look forward to delivering an Alpha 2 that's just a little more polished, as well as on time. As before, the lack of a hard freeze means that the timetable is not entirely under the release team's control; on the other hand, Friday the 21st is also the last day we can release the alpha before the holidays, so please take extra care to hold to the freeze policy for a successful Alpha 2. The list of bugs targetted for alpha-2 can be found in a couple of different places, according to your tastes: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/hardy-alpha-2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=948 This milestone is intended to be used for tracking bugs that must be fixed in order for the alpha release to happen. If you have doubts about whether a bug should block the alpha, please err on the side of caution by using the milestone for the bug so that the release team can review it. Please also consider helping with the bugs already listed there if you have the time. The number of bugs blocking the alpha is expected to be relatively small, so if you don't have any milestoned bugs assigned to you, please consider helping with the list of bugs that are listed as release-critical for hardy as a whole: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+bugs>. Again, please use your best judgement with regard to the alpha freeze when uploading fixes for these bugs. Please also help us to get the archive in a consistent state again for the alpha, as described on <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Consistency>. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek On behalf of the Ubuntu release team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianImportFreeze [2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-November/000351.html -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
