On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 12:05 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: > 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.
Thanks Micah. That makes it simpler to explain to folks as well, so will adjust my expectations to be the entire archive. Kate -- Ubuntu-release mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
