On 08/05/2011 11:17 AM, Kate Stewart wrote: > Dear Release Team members, and others interested, > > In asking around and after reading the documentation I'm hearing some > varied opinions of what it actually means to feature freeze. On reading > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze, it seems to not be as specific > as needed. > > "At this point we stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and > concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release." > > My expectation is that the freeze is for all main packages, and seeded > universe packages. Generally, it's been applied to the whole archive, but the barrier to an FFe for an unseeded and non-main package has been lower WRT new upstream versions for leaf packages. There are still a number of libs in universe that are unseeded and could wreak havoc on a small portion of the archive.
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