Improve Release Processes for Oneiric

Registered by Kate Stewart

This is a summary of the results of the Natty Release Review and feedback session, and suggestions from that for improving the Oneiric release management.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Ubuntu Release Team
Priority:
High
Drafter:
Kate Stewart
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Ubuntu Release Team
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for oneiric
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
None
Started by
Kate Stewart
Completed by
Kate Stewart

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Work items for oneiric-alpha-1:
[kate.stewart] Discuss new day for the release meeting: DONE
[kate.stewart] Update Oneiric schedule with feedback from UDS: DONE

Work items for oneiric-alpha-2:
[kate.stewart] Create Oneiric Interlock page - include LTS events, QA, SRU, CERT, community events (KDE 3.0, etc): DONE
[kate.stewart] Get Gerry Carr to Review P/Q/R schedules for interaction with marketing plans: DONE
[allison] Summarize community case for rebalance of Q/R (Gnome, KDE, other problems?): DONE
[kate.stewart] Look implicationsinto rebalance of Q/R closer to 26 weeks each: DONE

Work items for oneiric-alpha-3:
[kate.stewart] Adjust Q/R schedules based on investigation and communicate: DONE
[kate.stewart] Determine focus points for each subsequent milestones, and arrange for contributors to pre-seed tech overview with "interesting things": DONE

Work items for oneiric-beta-2:
[kate.stewart] Get product managers sign off on images for oneiric manifest, after testing arranged for each image: DONE
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note: discussion on this was originally captured in: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+spec/foundations-o-releaseprocess but blueprint could not be successfully retargeted, so this blueprint was created to track the workitems that came up from the review.

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