Hello Ubuntu developers, The Narwhal is ready to do a bit of spyhopping!
Alpha 1 is set for next Thursday, Dec. 2nd [1]. This first milestone is important for testing the new kernel on a variety of hardware, as well as the result of the autosyncs from Debian and first wave of merges and package updates. Alpha milestones in Ubuntu use a "soft freeze" for main[2], which 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-1 can be found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone=33571 Per the release critical bug targetting policy[3] , this list is supposed to be used for tracking bugs that are blockers for the alpha 1 milestone. If you know of bugs that should be considered blockers, please nominate them for release and set the milestone target for those bugs (to denote them as release-critical). If you have questions about whether a bug should be considered a blocker, please contact a member of the release team[4]. The list will be given a good scrubbing to conform to policy[3] early next week, so expect some changes. Beyond the list of bugs that are blockers for Alpha 1, we have those bugs that are listed as release-critical for Natty as a whole: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+bugs If you aren't among the small group of people who have milestoned bugs assigned to you, please consider helping with those bugs, using your best judgement with regard to the alpha freeze when uploading fixes. Please also help us to get the archive in a consistent state for the alpha, as described in: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Consistency. There's also plenty that can be done to help packages that aren't included on the CDs: https://merges.ubuntu.com/main.html shows about 130 package merges still outstanding in main for natty, and https://merges.ubuntu.com/universe.html shows about 50. Finally, if you know of new features in Natty that you think should be highlighted for Alpha 1, let us know so that they can be added to the technical overview that will soon be available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/TechnicalOverview. Workarounds for known bugs that won't be fixed in time for the Alpha 1 release are also most welcome. ;) Thank you, Kate Stewart On behalf of the Ubuntu release team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule [2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-January/000363.html [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RCBugTargetting [3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/+members -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
