I forgot to mention the fact that according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseSchedule, January 26th is Alpha 2 (for opt-in flavors).
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Valorie Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, you might notice that we didn't have an Alpha 1 out today. > That was partly because our packages aren't published and ready to go, > and the other is that none of the other flavors were ready either. > > Or, perhaps they didn't want to do all that extra work. Because I've > never been involved in releasing before, I didn't realize that "The > community flavors that choose to release alpha milestones (and the > beta-1 milestone) are responsible for finding the resources to make > these milestones happen. In general, releases will not happen without > volunteers." > > The page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityMilestoneProcess says that > "tasks need to be performed by someone with shell access to the image > building machine or someone on the Ubuntu release team. > > * Final publishing > * Setting up the ISO tracker > * Handling blocks & unblocks" > > In addition, "Flavour release teams are responsible for ensuring their > images get rebuilds when required if a global rebuild is not > occurring" and "Collect any release note URLs from flavours that want > to provide them," "Make sure all flavours have their images marked as > ready before release day," "Prepare and send release announcement to > ubuntu-devel-announce with a cc to ubuntu-release, " and "Be > responsive on IRC." > > Some of us should sign up to do some of these jobs, none of which I > ever thought of! > > Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
