BexarReleaseScheduleSpec

• Launchpad Entry: bexar-release-schedule
• Created: 2011-11-03
• Contributors: ThierryCarrez

Summary

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Release Note

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Rationale

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User stories

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Assumptions

We want at least two more three-month cycles.

Design

Proposed Solution

This solution aims at releasing before Ubuntu FeatureFreeze (for Bexar) and at Ubuntu FinalFreeze (for C).

Pre-cycle Prep:

Oct 28	Nov 4

Cycle for Bexar:

Nov 18	Nov 25	Dec 2	Dec 9	Dec 16	Dec 23	Dec 30	Jan 6	Jan 13	Jan 20	Jan 27
							BF	FF		GF
Development (9 weeks)									QA

Cycle for C:

Feb 10	Feb 17	Feb 24	Mar 3	Mar 10	Mar 17	Mar 24	Mar 31	Apr 7
					BF	FF		GF
Development (7 weeks)							QA

This places the next design summit either the week of April 25 or the week of May 2nd.

Key

• ODS: Openstack Design Summit, Tuesday to Friday.
• BF: Branch merge proposal Freeze, Thursday. All branches should be proposed by BF.
• FF: Feature Freeze, Thursday. All branches should be merged by FF.
• GF: Gamma Freeze, Tuesday. Gamma release is used to test the release for critical issues.
• RC: Release Candidate on Tuesday. Release on Thursday. Acts of god are required to change the RC.

Ubuntu dates

• Feb 24: Natty Narwhal feature freeze
• Apr 14: Natty Narwhal final freeze
• Apr 28: Ubuntu 11.04 release
• May 9: UDS-O (Budapest)

Implementation

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Test/Demo Plan

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Unresolved issues

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BoF agenda and discussion

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