Hello Ubuntu developers, Our sixth and final alpha testing milestone for Hardy, Hardy Alpha 6, is scheduled for next Thursday, March 6. Hardy Alpha 6 will again use a "soft freeze" for main[1]. This means that developers are asked to refrain from uploading packages between Tuesday and Thursday which don't bring us closer to releasing the alpha, so that these days can be used for settling the archive and fixing any remaining showstoppers.
The list of bugs targeted for alpha-6 can be found in a couple of different places, according to your tastes: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/hardy-alpha-6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=952 This milestone is intended to be used for tracking bugs that must be fixed in order for the alpha release to happen. If you have doubts about whether a bug should block the alpha, please err on the side of caution by using the milestone for the bug so that the release team can review it. Please also consider helping with the bugs already listed there if you have the time. At this point in the release cycle, it's increasingly important to look not just at the bugs that are critical for the current milestone, but also those which are critical for the upcoming hardy milestones or critical for the release as a whole: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-8.04-beta https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-8.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+bugs Please use your best judgement with regard to the alpha freeze when uploading fixes for these bugs, but if you don't have any bugs milestoned for alpha 6 that need your attention, it's definitely not too early to look ahead to the next milestones. Finally, please also help us to get the archive in a consistent state again for the alpha, as described on <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Consistency>. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek On behalf of the Ubuntu release team [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-January/000363.html -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
