Quantal Quetzal Alpha 2 target images
Dear testers, We've started off the Quantal Alpha 2 milestone now on the ISO tracker, http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/222/builds. Tonight's image builds will be the ones to start testing in earnest as candidates for Alpha 2. Images we hope to be able to ship out with Alpha 2 are: Ubuntu Desktop amd64/i386 livecd+alternate Ubuntu Desktop armhf+omap4 Ubuntu Server amd64/armhf+omap4 Ubuntu Cloud amd64/i386 Ubuntu Coreamd64/i386/armhf Kubuntu Desktop amd64/i386 livecd+alternate Kubuntu Active i386 Edubuntuamd64/i386 DVD Lubuntu amd64/i386/powerpc livecd+alternate Xubuntu amd64/386 livecd+alternate Ubuntu Studio amd64/i386 DVD Images still TBD: WUBIi386/amd64 Please monitor the iso tracker for the latest though. If any questions #ubuntu-release on Freenode for discussion attn: Daviey or skaet. Thanks, Kate -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Release Team meeting - 2011/09/02 cancelled.
A very big THANK YOU all the developers, testers, and release team members who helped get Beta 1 released today!! We'll be canceling tomorrow's release team meeting, but fear not, a nice summary of the bugs found during the beta testing will be mailed out tomorrow to give you interesting new problems to figure out. ;) Next meeting will be on Sept. 9, 2011. Cheers, Kate -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Natty Beta 2 Freeze, now in effect, and up coming dates...
Hi, Some questions have been coming up as to what the Natty release schedule looks like for the remainder of the month. Here's what was discussed on ubuntu-release mail list and referenced in the weekly meetings over the last month, Beta 2 freeze - 4/11 (0900 UTC) - hard freeze today Beta 2 release - 4/14 Main/Seeded Final Freeze 4/14 (basically archive stays frozen, only important bug fixes from this point forward) Last bug fix 4/21 (0900 UTC)- hard freeze (only release blocking bug fixes, requested by release team) Unseeded Universe/Multiverse Final Freeze - 4/26 (1200 UTC) Natty release 4/28 If you've got any questions or concerns, please send an email to the ubuntu-release mail list or join us on #ubuntu-release, on Freenode. Thanks, Kate on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
11.10 Ubuntu Release - Call for Topics
Hi all, As we go into the last phases of releasing Natty, please keep a set of side notes on things you would like to see improved in our release processes for Oneiric (and beyond). We will have a release feedback session again, early in UDS, to go over what worked well, and what can be improved for Oneiric. However there may be some topics that are wider in scope than that one feedback session. Looking at what some of the other teams are doing, a revised version of their process should work: 1. Send a call for topics the Ubuntu community (this is it) 2. Have an exchange over irc and email to discuss the requirements in depth 3. Produce a resulting UDS plan which summarizes the topics going into UDS, and feeds into blueprints 4. Provide a final roadmap post-UDS Here is the schedule with some details. = April 12th: Request for Topics = This email is the request for topics. Please send topics that you would like the Ubuntu Release team to consider for this cycle to the **ubuntu-release** mailing list [1] with "[Oneiric-Release-Topic]" in the subject line. These are not specific requirements, but high-level ideas or concepts. Some areas to consider: * Development Release Processes (freezes, testing, etc.) * Stable Release Updates (proposed, updates, testing, etc.) * Long Term Support Release Processes (testing, freezes, etc.) * Inter team dependencies ( Toolchain freeze, etc. ;) ) * End of Life Processes (advance notice, transitions ) * Release support infrastructure (archive, builders, etc.) = April 12th through April 19th - Requirements discussions held = We will discuss topics in the ubuntu-release irc channel and ubuntu-release mailing list. The goal will be to identify and document specific requirements. = April 19th through April 28th - Getty Natty out! = = May 2nd - UDS Oneiric Topics Review = A couple of days before UDS Oneiric we will present a plan. This is essentially a review of what topics we have planned for further discussion at UDS. = May 9th through May 13th - UDS = = Approximately two weeks post UDS - Oneiric Plan Review = About two weeks after UDS, we will revise the UDS Oneiric Plan to capture what was actually decided as the plan of record at UDS, and present that information. This info will feed into the Ubuntu Release planning for Oneiric and beyond Thanks, -Kate [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Request for help... want to see a specific image in Ubuntu's Natty Release?
Dear Developers, Testers and Passionate Hardware Platform Enthusiasts, One of the decisions from UDS last October was that we wouldn't be releasing any unverified images in Natty. In working through all the daily builds we do, there are some release images without folks signed up to verify that the images created are ready to ship and make a go/no go decision on them. If you have the necessary hardware for a specific release image and an interest in seeing that a specific product is available with the Natty release, we need some volunteers to sign up to do the sanity testing for the product images without contacts listed in: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseImageContacts What's involved you ask? - A commitment to test the specific image on the following days: 3/29-30 (Beta 1), 4/12-13 (Beta 2) and 4/26-27 (Proposed final image). - Work with the Ubuntu testing team to make sure the results of tests for that image (and any bugs found) are recorded on the ISO tracker for that image. - Notify the Ubuntu release team of any issues that should be documented in the release notes. If you're able to help out, feel free to go onto the wiki and edit it to add your name as the contact for a specific product and send a note to the specific product manager and myself letting us know you're willing to help. Please feel free to contact me directly via email or IRC (#ubuntu-release on freenode) if you have further questions. Thanks for your help with this! Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Natty Alpha 3 Released!
Welcome to Natty Narwhal Alpha 3, which will in time become Ubuntu 11.04. Pre-releases of Natty are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. Alpha 3 is the third in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Natty development cycle. New packages showing up in this release include: * LibreOffice 3.3.1 * Unity 3.6.0 * Linux Kernel 2.6.38-rc6. * Upstart 0.9 * Dpkg 1.16.0-pre + multi-arch snapshot The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of show stopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Natty. You can download it here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/natty/alpha-3/ (Ubuntu Desktop and Server) http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/natty/alpha-3/ (Ubuntu Server for UEC and EC2) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-netbook/ports/releases/natty/alpha-3/ (Ubuntu ARM) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/natty/alpha-3/ (Kubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/natty/alpha-3/ (Xubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/natty/alpha-3 (Edubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/natty/alpha-3/ (Ubuntu Studio) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/natty/alpha-3/ (Mythbuntu) Alpha 3 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/alpha3 for information on changes in Ubuntu. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a list of known bugs (that you don't need to report if you encounter), please see: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/alpha3 If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop Natty, have a look at the natty-changes mailing list: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/natty-changes We also suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list if you're interested in following Ubuntu development. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events. http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs Enjoy, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu release team -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Natty Feature Freeze now in effect; Alpha 3 freeze 2/27 2300 UTC
Hello Ubuntu developers, The Feature Freeze is now in effect for Natty. The focus from here until release is on fixing bugs and polishing. If you believe that a new package, a new upstream version of a package, or a new feature is needed for the release and will not introduce more problems than it fixes, please follow the Freeze Exception Process by filing bugs and subscribing ubuntu-release or motu-release as appropriate. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess Please also make sure that specs assigned to you for Natty are updated to their current status (which should be at least Beta Available if not Deferred, or unless granted a freeze exception). https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/ Our next testing milestone, Lucid Alpha 3, is scheduled for Thursday, March 3rd. Natty Alpha 3 will go into a "soft freeze" for main[1] on Feb 27th at 2300UTC. 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, testing the imags and fixing any remaining showstoppers. The list of bugs targeted for alpha-3 can be found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+bugs?field.milestone=33573 Per the policy[2], this list is used for tracking bugs that are blockers for the alpha 3 milestone. If you know of other bugs that should be considered as potential blockers, please target them to the release and set the milestone target for those bugs. If you have questions about whether a bug should be considered a blocker, please contact a member of the release team[3]. And of course, please also consider helping with the bugs already listed there if you have the time. Beyond the bugs that are blockers for Alpha 3, we have those bugs that are listed as release-critical for Lucid as a whole: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+bugs If you aren't among the group of people who have milestoned bugs assigned to you, please consider helping with those release-targeted bugs, using your best judgment with regard to the alpha freeze when uploading fixes. 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 Finally, if you know of new features in Natty that you think should be highlighted for Alpha 3, please let me or another member of the release team know so that they can be added to the technical overview at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/TechnicalOverview Thanks, Kate Stewart On behalf of the Ubuntu release team [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-January/000363.html [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RCBugTargetting [3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/+members -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
2011-02-11 Ubuntu Release Meating Minutes
Overall: Teams are starting into the A3 feature groove :), bug backlog is still a bit high in some areas. Team Summaries: * QA: Linux, LibreOffice, and Unity are toping the list of incoming bugs over last week. * HW Cert: All servers for 11.04 except 1 are now reporting results, desktop runs not done this week due to hardware relocation. * Bugs under focus: 714829, 695842, 715871 * Security: Making progress on work items for Natty, nothing A3 critical * Bugs under focus: bug:344878, bug:712662 (pending doko input), bug:714908, bug:714958, bug:715874. * Kernel: uploaded two kernels with the latest v2.6.38-3.30 (v2.6.38-rc4 based) with lots of fixes for graphics, now mostly watching mainline * Bugs under focus: see Kernel team report. * Foundations: btrfs installs now confirmed to work properly again, Upstart visualisation and interactive boot work * Bugs under focus: made progress this week, switching back to features for A3 * Server: working on awstrial, new openstack snapshot, working on LXC on openstack, and new packages including Handbreak plugin for mysql. Eucalyptus still remains to be a problem in Natty. * Bugs under focus: regression showing up with bug:590201, will provide feedback on above list post meeting. * Desktop: cleanup of A3 WI's in progress, annoying compiz bug about invisible windows should be fixed now, python-gobject ABI breakage has been hotfixed, so pygtk apps are running normally again * Bugs under focus: 638827 is blocked on mozilla. * UbuntuOne: shotwell not looking likely for Natty, unity integration has started, and banshee still needs some work. * Kubuntu: kubuntu mobile mostly working again, libindicate-qt updated for new API, Qt being built with gcc 4.4 to work around issues with gcc 4.5 on ARM * Thorny areas that need some focus and/or decisions: * plymouth timing interactions with vesab (kernel, foundations) * Eucalyptus (server) * X - rolling back, or working around? (desktop, arm, kernel) * python 2.6/2.7 vs. 2.7 only? (motu, foundations) * picking up Linaro recent toolchain drop? (arm, foundations, linaro, kubuntu) Action Items: * [release team] to revisit release freeze date, and its relation to beta 2 * [zul] to provide update on status of server bugs highlighted in agenda * [wendar] to post resolution on the Python 2.6/2.7 vs Python 2.7 inclusion in Natty * [skaet] follow up with doko after he returns on Linaro toolchain inclusion. Full summary and links to logs can be found: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-02-11 Kate -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
2011-01-17 Ubuntu LTS and SRU bi-weekly - minutes
Thanks to those of you who were able to attend the meeting earlier today. For those of you on holiday, please scan the minutes. Highlights: 10.04.2 - targetted for release on 2/17 - freeze is 1/20 (this Thursday)... get your bug fixes in now. - QA and HW cert testing between 10.04.2 and Natty Alpha 2 will be consuming most of the testing cycles. Will be defering an SRU cycle until after 10.04.2 goes out. SRU - -proposed candidate Maverick(Bug:697948) and Lucid(Bug:699885) kernels released on 1/11. - Lucid -proposed candidate is likely to be 10.04.2 kernel The meetings will be shifting from bi-weekly to weekly for next few weeks until after 10.04.2 is released. Victor Pilau will host the next SRU/LTS meeting on 1/24. Agenda & Minutes can be found: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-01-17-SR Thanks, Kate -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
2011-01-03 Ubuntu SRU and LTS bi-weekly - minutes
Happy New Year! I hope that everyone had a good holiday break, and has caught up with their inbox now. :) Thank you to all who were around and able to attend the 1/3 SRU and 10.04.2 LTS bi-weekly meeting earlier this week. Highlights: 10.04.2 - targetted for release on 2/17. - feature freeze is set for 1/20, based on existing process[1]. (Note. process for setting didn't have new SRU cadence factored in so this date is being reviewed and may change.) SRU updates - kernel update life cycle we're settling into for lucid/maverick is: (friday of prior week) - kernel uploaded to -proposed verification week - using built kernel, backing out failures testing week - hardware cert and regression testing (end of testing week) - kernel moved to -update see [2] for current prediction of SRU for rest of Natty. - next cycle will have extra week in verification to avoid conflict with platform team rally. Details (logs, links, actions, etc.) from the meeting can be found in [3]. Cheers, Kate [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PointReleaseProcess [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseInterlock [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-01-03-SR -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
