For those of you who target bugs and features to releases, you may have noticed that there is now an o-series and p-series available. This means that it is now possible to target bugs and features to future Ubuntu releases, something we couldn't easily do before. Many thanks to the launchpad team for making this available, to help with our release management!!! :)
The purpose of these future release planning buckets is so we can track bugs and features. If we figure out we're not going to be able to get some bugs fixed or some features implemented in natty, but don't want to lose track of them and we can now indicate when they should get worked on. Please note that code can not be uploaded to the future releases though, until they become active. The use of the milestone "later" was used historically by some to indicate a bug or feature should be looked at in the future, but it lacked release-level granularity, and was inconsistently applied. The introduction of release+1 (o-series) and release+2 (p-series), will provide more granularity, and help us track things a bit better. When Natty is released, o-series will become the active release (with the appropriate keyword ;)), and code/fixes can start being assigned to it then. When o-series becomes active development release, a q-series planning bucket will be introduced. Going forward we'll be looking to keep a release+1 and release+2 available on a rolling basis. If you have any questions, please let me know. I'll be starting to work through the WIKI pages to update them to document this, so if you find a reference that looks like it needs updating, feel free to point it out. :) Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce