This is a *great* feature that it'd be really cool for Ubuntu to have
and I'm very pleased that the team has been working on it, but...

I really don't feel very good about this freeze exception request. It
doesn't seem right to me to be adding unmerged, experimental and
unfinished features into the release - especially so late on.

It is going to need iteration either before or after the release and
that runs a very high risk of either being disruptive to the release
(making updates to the altered packages potentially more difficult if
they need to be changed for other reasons), taking up time of the
release/SRU teams having to review changes, or (if iterations aren't
included in disco) the package in the release being behind the latest
developments meaning that it ends up not being as useful to people as it
could be — known bugs will be fixed in the development branches but not
in disco.

A PPA seems like the right place to handle distributing such
experimental features to people. Testing things is one thing that PPAs
are for, and any publicity that you want to do around this feature could
have upgrading via `add-apt-repository` as its first step. Such a PPA
could even live under an uploading team like ~ubuntu-desktop to make it
seem more official if you wanted.

There's no problem with ubuntu/disco-x-fractional branches being created
in the packaging repositories, to make handling the PPA easier.

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