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HardySchedule

Revision 2 as of 2007-11-12 18:13:34

THE DATES IN THE SCHEDULE ARE A WORKING DRAFT TAKEN FROM THE HardyReleaseSchedule NO DATES ARE FINAL. DO NOT PUBLISH.

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Freezes normally happen at the start of the given date, UTC time. So last minute changes need to happen the day before.
Some background information and Q&A about the Ubuntu release process can be found on TimeBasedReleases
See the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OtherProjectSchedules Schedules of other projects]

Week	Date	Focus	Status	Notes
October 2007
1	October 25th	Identification of SRU candidate bugs		Toolchain Uploaded
November 2007
2	November 1st	Identification of SRU candidate bugs		Development Summit
3	November 8th	Identification of SRU candidate bugs		Canonical AllHands
4	November 15th	Identification of SRU candidate bugs
5	November 22nd	Identification of SRU candidate bugs		Specifications must be finalized, Translations exported from LP
6	November 29th	Start notifying Won't Fix kernel bugs of testing with Live CD		Alpha 1
December 2007
7	December 6th	Notify Won't Fix kernel bugs of testing with Live CD
8	December 13th		$Warning /!\$ DebianImportFreeze	Remaining upstream merges completed, Rebuild Test
9	December 20th			Alpha 2
10	December 27th			Christmas Break
January 2008
11	January 3rd
12	January 10th			Alpha 3
13	January 17th
14	January 24th			Developer Sprint?
15	January 31st			Alpha 4
Feburary 2008
16	February 7th
17	February 14th		$Warning /!\$ FeatureFreeze	Rebuild Test, Upgrade Testing begins
18	February 21st	Create list of showstopper bugs - ensure each bug is assigned		Alpha 5
19	February 28th	Maintain list of showstopper bugs	$Warning /!\$ UserInterfaceFreeze
March 2008
20	March 6th	Maintain list of showstopper bugs		Alpha 6
21	March 13th	Maintain list of showstopper bugs
22	March 20th	Maintain list of showstopper bugs	$Warning /!\$ BetaFreeze	Rebuild Test
23	March 27th	Maintain list of showstopper bugs, identify final list of kernel fixes	$Warning /!\$ BetaRelease, $Warning /!\$ DocumentationStringFreeze
April 2008
24	April 3rd	Maintain list of showstopper bugs, identify final list of kernel fixes
25	April 10th		$Warning /!\$ NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline, $Warning /!\$ KernelFreeze	Rebuild Test
26	April 17th		$Warning /!\$ ReleaseCandidate, $Warning /!\$ LanguagePackTranslationDeadline
27	April 24th		$Warning /!\$ FinalRelease	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
May 2008
28	May 1st
29	May 8th
30	May 15th
31	May 22nd			Developer Summit (tentative)
32	May 29th
June 2008
33	June 5th			$Warning /!\$ Ubuntu 8.04.1 (tentative)