Natty Narwhal Alpha 1 freeze coming up next week

2010-11-26 Thread Kate Stewart
orkarounds for known bugs that won't be fixed in time for the Alpha 1 release are also most welcome. ;) Thank you, Kate Stewart On behalf of the Ubuntu release team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule [2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce

Main frozen for Natty Alpha 1

2010-11-30 Thread Kate Stewart
t be your safety net. Packages that are not seeded on the CDs (i.e., most packages in universe, with the exception of Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and Mythbuntu packages) may be uploaded as usual. Thanks, Kate Stewart, for the Ubuntu release team -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-annou

Natty Alpha 1 Released

2010-12-02 Thread Kate Stewart
m/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs Enjoy, -- Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ub

How to target bugs and features to future Ubuntu releases

2010-12-14 Thread Kate Stewart
For those of you who target bugs and features to releases, you may have noticed that there is now an o-series and p-series available. This means that it is now possible to target bugs and features to future Ubuntu releases, something we couldn't easily do before. Many thanks to the launchpad team

Natty Alpha-2 Released

2011-02-03 Thread Kate Stewart
changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs Enjoy, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu release team -- ubuntu-devel-a

Natty Schedule Adjustments (Beta 2 added, Release Candidate dropped)

2011-02-11 Thread Kate Stewart
the weekly release meetings, we're going to go ahead and add a Beta 2 for this release, and drop the Release Candidate from the Natty Schedule [1]. Natty Beta 2 will be on April 14th, 2011. If you anticipate any problems due to this change, please let us know. Thanks, Kate Stewa

Natty Feature Freeze now in effect; Alpha 3 freeze 2/27 2300 UTC

2011-02-24 Thread Kate Stewart
Natty that you think should be highlighted for Alpha 3, please let me or another member of the release team know so that they can be added to the technical overview at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/TechnicalOverview Thanks, Kate Stewart On behalf of the Ubuntu release team [1] http

Natty Alpha 3 Released!

2011-03-04 Thread Kate Stewart
o to the Ubuntu bug tracker: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs Enjoy, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu release team -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Natty Beta Freeze now in effect.

2011-03-24 Thread Kate Stewart
Hello all, Both UI Freeze [1] and Beta Freeze [2] came into effect today (Thursday, March 24) at 2300 UTC. >From now on, **all** uploads to the main archive and any user interface >change will have to be approved manually by the release team. In addition, >both the documentation and transla

Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwhal) Released.

2011-03-31 Thread Kate Stewart
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 11.04 beta. Codenamed "Natty Narwhal", 11.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. Ubuntu 11.04 now combines Ubuntu Deskt

Natty Beta 2 Freeze, now in effect, and up coming dates...

2011-04-12 Thread Kate Stewart
Hi, Some questions have been coming up as to what the Natty release schedule looks like for the remainder of the month. Here's what was discussed on ubuntu-release mail list and referenced in the weekly meetings over the last month, Beta 2 freeze - 4/11 (0900 UTC) - hard freeze

Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

2011-04-14 Thread Kate Stewart
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2. Codenamed "Natty Narwhal", 11.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work sin

Oneiric Alpha 1 freeze: soft freeze in effect.

2011-05-31 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear developers, Its that time in the cycle... time for an Alpha 1. :) This is a soft freeze, but we'd appreciate it if you held off on uploads unless its fixing one of the blocking bugs. Thanks, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce ma

Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1 Released

2011-06-02 Thread Kate Stewart
buntu-devel-announce list. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Enjoy, -- Kate Stewart, on behalf of the

Reminder: Oneiric Alpha 2 release scheduled for July 7th.

2011-07-01 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, We've started to get ready for the Alpha 2 release, and work through the milestone processes. A list of the images we're targeting to produce (and the associated contacts for each) can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseImageContacts Alpha 2 is sc

Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2 Released

2011-07-07 Thread Kate Stewart
vents. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Enjoy, Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Unscheduled Debian Archive Synch

2011-07-27 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, As some of you may have noticed, we had an unscheduled Debian archive sync earlier today. This was caused by a javascript bug uncovered while doing some final testing on the new launchpad native sync capability (which will allow those developers with upload rights to sync tho

Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 3 Released

2011-08-04 Thread Kate Stewart
tinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Enjoy, Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Oneiric Feature Freeze - reset to 2100 UTC

2011-08-11 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, Feature freeze[1] for Oneiric was scheduled for 1800 UTC today. To those of you who have finished your new feature uploads - Thank you!! :) Due to some last minute churn, it seems prudent to adjust the time to 2100 UTC. After 2100 UTC, Feature Freeze exceptions[2] will be

Oneiric Beta Freeze now in effect.

2011-08-25 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, Beta Freeze[1] and User Interface Freeze[2] is now in effect (Thursday, August 25). From now on, all uploads to the archive and any user user interface changes will have to be approved manually by the release team. The documentation team and translation teams will al

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released.

2011-09-01 Thread Kate Stewart
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1. Codenamed "Oneiric Ocelot", 11.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cy

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Beta 2 Freeze, now in effect.

2011-09-15 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, Beta Freeze[1] is now in effect (Thursday, Sept 15). User Interface Freeze[2] remains in effect now as well. From now on, all uploads to the archive and any user user interface changes will have to be approved manually by the release team. The documentation team and t

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released.

2011-09-22 Thread Kate Stewart
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2. Codenamed "Oneiric Ocelot", 11.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cyc

[Fwd: Upcoming dates as we head towards 11.10 release...]

2011-09-27 Thread Kate Stewart
Forwarding to the correct list for this. --- Begin Message --- Dear Developers, Documentation and Translation teams, Just a quick reminder about some upcoming dates that are fast approaching as we head towards Oneiric Ocelot's release[1]. Please submit any important bug fixes as soon as poss

11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Final Freeze - now in effect.

2011-09-29 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, Final Freeze [1] is now in effect. If you know of a bug currently targeted for Oneiric that is not going to get fixed in the time remaining, please decide if its a candidate for an SRU, and if so, milestone it as oneiric-updates. Also, if its clear the bug is not going to get

Precise Alpha 1 - Soft Freeze in effect

2011-11-28 Thread Kate Stewart
to a blocking bug the release team has requested, please ask before uploading in #ubuntu-release. Thanks, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Re: Precise Alpha 1 - Soft Freeze in effect

2011-11-28 Thread Kate Stewart
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 15:44 -0600, Kate Stewart wrote: >This week we'll be testing the new ISO tracker as well as the > Alpha 1 release itself, so respecting the soft freeze would > be especially appreciated. > >If you have to upload something other than a fix to

Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released!

2011-12-01 Thread Kate Stewart
list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Enjoy, -- Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing l

Precise Alpha 2 - Soft Freeze in effect

2012-01-31 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, Its that time in the cycle... soft freeze for Alpha 2. :) If you have to upload something other than a fix to a blocking bug the release team has requested, please ask before uploading in #ubuntu-release. Thanks, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team

Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released!

2012-02-02 Thread Kate Stewart
ly to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Enjoy, Kate Stewart, on beha

Reminder Precise Feature Freeze approaching....- 2100 UTC 2012/02/16

2012-02-15 Thread Kate Stewart
Hello Ubuntu Developers, Its now less than 24 hours before we enter Feature Freeze for Precise. Please take care to ensure that any remaining packages have been well tested prior to uploading, so we minimize the daily image breakage. For those packages that interact with others packages

Precise Feature Freeze - now in effect.

2012-02-16 Thread Kate Stewart
armel community project builds, which will retain compatibility with their respective binary drivers). More information about this transition will be available soon. Thanks, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Precise Beta Freeze now in effect.

2012-02-23 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, Beta Freeze[1] and User Interface Freeze[2] is now in effect (Thursday, Feb 23rd). All uploads to the archive and any user user interface changes will have to be approved manually by the release team. The documentation team and translation teams will also need to be no

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Beta 1 Released.

2012-03-01 Thread Kate Stewart
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products. Codenamed "Precise Pangolin", 12.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quali

Precise Beta Freeze now in effect

2012-03-22 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, Beta Freeze[1] now in effect (Thursday, March 22nd). All uploads to the archive and any user user interface changes will now have to be approved manually by the release team. Some may be staged in -proposed before being copied into the release archive, at the discretion o

Please Update Blueprint status

2012-03-22 Thread Kate Stewart
ete" in the specifications, as appropriate for those done, it would help us with collecting up the information for the release notes. Thanks for your help with this. Kate Stewart on behalf of Ubuntu Release Team [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+specs -- ubuntu-devel

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Beta 2 Released.

2012-03-29 Thread Kate Stewart
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products. Codenamed "Precise Pangolin", 12.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quali

Precise Unseeded Universe Final Freeze now in effect.

2012-04-25 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developer, The Unseeded Universe Final Freeze is now in effect. This effectively finishes up the changes going into the Precise Ubuntu archive for the release. Iain Lane has kindly gathered some precise statistics ;) (see below) summarizing what has occurred in the Ubuntu project archi

Quantal Alpha 1 milestone preparation and freeze handling

2012-06-04 Thread Kate Stewart
table have been stopped until we release A1. If you have any questions about where you should upload, please ask on #ubuntu-release first. Thank you for your help with this experiment, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu

12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 1 Released!

2012-06-07 Thread Kate Stewart
ntal, we suggest that you subscribe initially to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-an

Quantal Alpha 2 milestone release prep

2012-06-25 Thread Kate Stewart
n Unstable have been stopped until we release A2. If you have any questions about where you should upload, please ask on #ubuntu-release first. Thank you for your help getting Alpha 2 ready to ship. Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ub

12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 2 Released!

2012-06-28 Thread Kate Stewart
http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Quantal Alpha 3 milestone release preparation

2012-07-23 Thread Kate Stewart
ase ask on #ubuntu-release first. Technical Overview information for Alpha 3 can be added to the WIKI page at: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Alpha3 Thank you for your help getting Alpha 3 ready to ship. Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ub

12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 3 Released!

2012-07-26 Thread Kate Stewart
list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing

upcoming 12.04.1 release plans...

2012-08-02 Thread Kate Stewart
e to ping Stéphane Graber (stgraber), Dave Walker (Daviey) or myself (skaet) in #ubuntu-release channel. Thank you for all your efforts over the last couple of months on polishing up 12.04! Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release and Ubuntu Stable Release Teams -- ubuntu-devel-announce mai

12.04.1 Freeze updates

2012-08-16 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers and Testers, The data center move had a few surprises, and some of you may have noticed we haven't had working image builders today.As a result, the last builds and testing prior to final freeze have been impacted. Fixes to be included in 12.04.1 should still be validated by

Quantal Feature Freeze - now in effect.

2012-08-23 Thread Kate Stewart
September 6th. Thanks, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseSchedule -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Quantal Beta Freeze now in effect

2012-08-30 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, Beta Freeze[1] and User Interface Freeze[2] is now in effect (Thursday, August 30). All uploads to the archive and any user user interface changes will have to be approved manually by the release team. The documentation team and translation teams will also need to be n

Quantal Beta Freeze now in effect.

2012-09-20 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, Beta Freeze[1] is now in effect (Thursday, September 20). All uploads to the archive will now have to be approved manually by the release team, prior to inclusion. Please use the rls-q-incoming tag on any bugs found if its urgent to get fixed, so it comes to the attention

Quantal Archive to remain in pre-release freeze until 12.10 Release.

2012-09-28 Thread Kate Stewart
ease cycle, and your help on feeding our Quantal Quetzal those last important bug fixes. :) Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseSchedule [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelFreeze [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopInfrastructureFreeze

12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Final Freeze - now in effect.

2012-10-09 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, Final Freeze [1] is now in effect. If you know of a bug currently targeted for Quantal that is not going to get fixed in the time remaining, please decide if its a candidate for an SRU, and if so, milestone it as quantal-updates. Also, if its clear the bug is not going to get

Quantal Unseeded Universe Final Freeze now in effect.

2012-10-16 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, The Unseeded Universe Final Freeze is now in effect. This effectively finishes up the changes going into the Quantal Ubuntu archive for the 12.10 release. The archive is looking in very good shape indeed due to your efforts and all those excellent fixes submitted since Bet

13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Alpha 1 Released!

2013-06-27 Thread Kate Stewart
ions, policy changes, alpha releases and other interesting events. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce A big thank you to the developers and testers for their efforts to pull together this initial Alpha release! Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release te

13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Beta 1 Released!

2013-09-06 Thread Kate Stewart
ts of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases and other interesting events. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce A big thank you to the developers and testers for their efforts to pull together this Beta release! Kate Stewart and Iain Lane, on behalf of the U

Trusty Alpha 1 Released!

2013-12-19 Thread Kate Stewart
and testers for their efforts to pull together this Alpha release! Kate Stewart & Steve Langasek, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce