Final Beta Freeze/Release rescheduled for Raring

2013-03-14 Thread Adam Conrad
A fair while back, there was a concensus reached among various flavour leads that the two-week/four-week spacing from Beta1 to Beta2 to Final Release was suboptimal, and it was agreed that we would move Beta2 a week later to make it less objectionable. Unfortunately, while we all agreed this was a

Raring frozen for Final Beta, and continuing on to Release

2013-04-02 Thread Adam Conrad
, and will be reviewed and accepted promptly. Please help us make this another smooth and polished Ubuntu release, and thanks in advance for all the hard work in that direction. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-ann

Final Freeze for Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring) now in effect

2013-04-18 Thread Adam Conrad
For the timezone challenged, as of 2100UTC today, the archive is officially fozen in preparation of release candidates and the final release of Raring Ringtail in a week. Uploads from here on in should fall into the following bins: 1) Installer/release-critical bugs that absolutely MUST get fixed

Saucy Salamander now open for development

2013-04-28 Thread Adam Conrad
27;m unfreezing the archive this morning and declaring Saucy open for active development. Happy merging. On behalf of the Release Team, Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

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

2013-10-10 Thread Adam Conrad
[ 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 fr

Trusty Tahr Final Beta Freeze

2014-03-24 Thread Adam Conrad
p out your favourite flavour(s) with ISO testing and feedback. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Final Freeze for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) at 2100UTC today

2014-04-10 Thread Adam Conrad
nstall for your friends, family, and work networks and then promptly forget about for two years because it's just that awesome. At least, it should be. So, if it's not, let's make sure we sort that out. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-a

Utopic Unicorn (14.10) is Open for Business

2014-04-25 Thread Adam Conrad
27;t think you could land in an LTS without the release team glaring at you, and I'm sure this one will be no exception. So, have fun, happy uploading, and do try to fix two bugs for every one you upload. Ish. ... Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubu

Feature Freeze in effect for 14.10

2014-08-21 Thread Adam Conrad
As of nowish, Feature Freeze is in effect for utopic (14.10), leading up to the release in October. Don't fret if you have One Last Feature to get uploaded, and don't panic and upload it untested today just to try to beat the clock. We would rather see a feature freeze exception bug and a well-te

Utopic Unicorn (14.10) Final Beta Freeze

2014-09-22 Thread Adam Conrad
ghunting on our push from here to the final release, and please do help out your favourite flavour(s) with ISO testing and feedback. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad PS: If you find something being hung up in the queue that you feel should be auto-accepted, let us know, w

Final Freeze for Ubuntu 14.10 (utopic) in effect

2014-10-17 Thread Adam Conrad
7;m sure there will be reasons to respin, but please do get to testing, so we have a better handle on the state of the world as it is today. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Vivid Vervet (15.04) now open for business

2014-10-23 Thread Adam Conrad
After a short period of wrangling things from utopic-proposed to vivid-proposed and a few small merges and uploads to prime the archive, vivid is now open for development. In theory, this shouldn't change much, but the arch-indep build architecture has been changed from i386 to amd64, which more c

Vivid Vervet (15.04) Final Beta Freeze

2015-03-23 Thread Adam Conrad
he release team, so we only review the uploads that need very serious consideration. Happy bughunting on our push from here to the final release, and please do help out your favourite flavour(s) with ISO testing and feedback. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad PS: If you find

Wily Werewolf (15.10) now open for development

2015-05-05 Thread Adam Conrad
After a few procedural hiccups, Wascally Wabbit^W^WWily Werewolf is now open for development. Very little has changed in the opening base system and toolchain, however do note that due to jessie releasing only a couple of days after vivid, many Debian developers have awoken from hibernation and au

Wily Werewolf Alpha 1 Released

2015-06-25 Thread Adam Conrad
o the developers and testers for their efforts to pull together this Alpha release! On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Wily Werewolf (15.10) Final Beta Freeze

2015-09-22 Thread Adam Conrad
x27;s broken in your environment(s). On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Wily Werewolf (15.10) Final Freeze

2015-10-15 Thread Adam Conrad
and a few spare hours here and there to get to testing to make sure we have another uneventful release next week. Last minute panic is never fun. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubun

Feature Freeze in effect for Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS)

2016-02-18 Thread Adam Conrad
and a well-tested upload than something rushed to beat a deadline. That said, the vast majority of people should be winding down new feature development now and focusing on bug fixes and polish to make 16.04 yet another great release come April. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... A

Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS) Final Beta Freeze

2016-03-21 Thread Adam Conrad
urage people to get to testing ASAP for their favourite flavour(s) as they come off the line. Happy bug-hunting from now until the final release, and please do help out and test ISOs, netboot, etc, where you can and let us know what's broken in your environment(s). On behalf of the Ubuntu Releas

Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS) Final Freeze

2016-04-14 Thread Adam Conrad
(or two) and a few spare hours here and there to get to testing to make sure we have another uneventful release next week. Last minute panic is never fun. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lis

Yakkety Yak (16.10) Final Beta Freeze

2016-09-21 Thread Adam Conrad
r favourite flavour(s) as they come off the line. Happy bug-hunting from now until the final release, and please do help out and test ISOs, netboot, etc, where you can and let us know what's broken in your environment(s). On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-anno

Yakkety Yak (16.10) Final Freeze

2016-10-06 Thread Adam Conrad
and a few spare hours here and there to get to testing to make sure we have another uneventful release next week. Last minute panic is never fun. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubun

Zesty Zapus (17.04) Final Beta Freeze

2017-03-20 Thread Adam Conrad
nment(s). On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Zesty Zapus (17.04) Final Freeze

2017-04-06 Thread Adam Conrad
and a few spare hours here and there to get to testing to make sure we have another uneventful release next week. Last minute panic is never fun. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubun

Anticipating abundant anonymous aardvarks in the Ubuntu archive.

2017-04-13 Thread Adam Conrad
The opening of the next release will begin sometime next week, with various changes to the packaging toolchain, notably a large dpkg merge with some buildflags and buildinfo bits, and a move to the upstream implementation of ddebs in debhelper. Currently, however, we are, by decree of our sabdfl (

Artful Aardvark open for development

2017-04-25 Thread Adam Conrad
Artful Aardvark has been open since Friday, but it's been noted that since doko's on vacation, and I passed out after opening the archive, no one got around to sending the announcement email. Artful opened with two major packaging toolchain changes, both of which should be mostly transparent: -

Artful Aardvark (17.10) Final Freeze

2017-10-12 Thread Adam Conrad
and a few spare hours here and there to get to testing to make sure we have another uneventful release next week. Last minute panic is never fun. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubun

Bionic Beaver (18.04 LTS) Final Freeze

2018-04-19 Thread Adam Conrad
(or two) and a few spare hours here and there to get to testing to make sure we have another uneventful release next week. Last minute panic is never fun. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lis

Cosmic Cuttlefish (18.10) Beta Freeze

2018-09-24 Thread Adam Conrad
nt(s). On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad [1] Formerly known as Final Beta, but we now only have one beta per cycle, having removed the opt-in beta from the schedule. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mai

Cosmic Cuttlefish (18.10) Final Freeze

2018-10-11 Thread Adam Conrad
wo) and a few spare hours here and there to get to testing to make sure we have another uneventful release next week. Last minute panic is never fun. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lis

Disco Dingo (to be 19.04) Feature Freeze

2019-02-21 Thread Adam Conrad
As per the release schedule, Disco Dingo is now in Feature Freeze. Ideally, you will all now be focusing on bug fixing and not on getting new features into the release however, if necessary, please follow the process for freeze exceptions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess As is t

Disco Dingo (19.04) Beta Freeze

2019-03-26 Thread Adam Conrad
nt(s). On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad [1] Formerly known as Final Beta, but we now only have one beta per cycle, having removed the opt-in beta from the schedule. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/l

Disco Dingo (19.04) Final Freeze

2019-04-11 Thread Adam Conrad
avour (or two) and a few spare hours here and there to get to testing to make sure we have another uneventful release next week. Last minute panic is never fun. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... Adam Conrad -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com ht

Eoan Ermine (19.10) Beta Freeze

2019-09-23 Thread Adam Conrad
). On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad [1] Formerly known as Final Beta, but we now only have one beta per cycle, having removed the opt-in beta from the schedule. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/l

Eoan Ermine (19.10) Final Freeze

2019-10-11 Thread Adam Conrad
ful release next week. Last minute panic is never fun. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, ... Adam Conrad [1] What? No alarm for you? Yeah, me neither. I suggest we complain. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce