On Monday, March 25, 2013 01:34:22 PM Stéphane Graber wrote: > Hello, > > We're now approaching the final beta for the 13.04 release and so now is > around the time where we should think about freezing the archive. > > In the past, we've usually started freezing with the second beta and > then kept everything frozen till release. > > > Now with the migration blocks that can be put in place in britney, it's > my opinion that we don't need to freeze the whole archive nearly that > early and so can save some time to the release team by not having nearly > as much to review as usual. > > My proposal would therefore be to keep the archive unfrozen with a > transition block in place for beta2 effective this Thursday at 21:00 > UTC, then remove the block next Thursday once beta2 is out and do a full > archive freeze the Thursday after that (11th) at the same time as the > KernelFreeze and NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline. > > So the timeline would look like: > - 28th 21:00 UTC: FinalBetaFreeze, britney beta-2 block in place > - 4th: Release of Beta-2, revert of the britney beta-2 block > - 4th 21:00 UTC: DocumentationStringFreeze > - 11th 21:00 UTC: KernelFreeze, NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline and > full archive freeze. > > Once in full archive freeze, the release team will carry the usual > package reviews as things land in the queue, unseeded packages will be > let through until we hit the unseeded packages freeze (do we have dates > yet?). > > > How does that proposal sound to the rest of the release team? > > Do you think this is the right ratio between release team work and > archive stability?
If we're going to do that, I'd rather move beta 2 back a week to match. I've viewed the goal as having control over what changes from a known ~good set of beta 2 images (what we used to call release candidate, even though they weren't) to release. Having the buffer of britney in place doesn't really replace that in my opinion. Scott K -- Ubuntu-release mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
