UbuntuStudio/RaringReleaseSchedule

Week	Date (Thursday)	Planning Week 1-5
October 2012
1	October 25th	Announce Brainstorming for this release at the ubuntu-studio-devel mail list
November 2012
2	November 1st	Developer Summit. zequence attended. UbuntuStudio/UDS-R-PadNotes
3	November 8th
4	November 15th	Register blueprints at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu using this template, and use the results from the previous brainstorming discussions to create workitems for these blueprints (see UbuntuStudio/Blueprints to get an overview of existing blueprints)
5	November 22nd	$Warning /!\$ FeatureDefinitionFreeze All blueprints for the development release need to have been registered and then approved by someone at the Ubuntu Release Team
Week	Date (Thursday)	Development Week 6-22
6	November 29th	Begin development and testing. Report bugs as far upstream as possible. Work with appplication developers and Debian maintainers, especially the Debian Multimedia Team to solve bugs for multimedia debian packages.
December 2012
7	December 6th
8	December 13th
9	December 20th
10	December 27th
January 2013
11	January 3rd
12	January 10th
13	January 17th
14	January 24th
15	January 31st
February 2013
16	February 7th
17	February 14th	$Warning /!\$ Debian Import Freeze occurs here, which means any bugfixes will need special treatment. Possibly by adding patches to the Ubuntu package
18	February 21st
19	February 28th
March 2013
20	March 7th	$Warning /!\$ FeatureFreeze means no new uploads of existing packages, unless it is a critical bugfix
21	March 14th
22	March 21st
Week	Date (Thursday)	Beta Testing Week 23-26
23	March 28th	$Warning /!\$ FinalBetaFreeze $Warning /!\$ UserInterfaceFreeze - No more changes until the final Beta is released.
April 2013
24	April 4th	$Warning /!\$ FinalBetaRelease - Do thorough testing with this ISO and make sure any critical bugs get fixed.
25	April 11th	$Warning /!\$ KernelFreeze - no more kernel changes
26	April 18th	$Warning /!\$ FinalFreeze, $Warning /!\$ ReleaseCandidate prepare PR announcements for the new release
Week	Date (Thursday)	Final Release Week 27
27	April 25th	$Warning /!\$ FinalRelease Ubuntu 13.04

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