Hi Erich,
Here's the instructions for filing a Freeze Exception:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess
Note that before Release Candidate (April 11), bugfix-only updates
might not need a Freeze Exception:
FeatureFreeze for bugfix-only updates
Up through RC, if a developer believes an upload of a new upstream
release that just has bug fixes in it is warranted, they may upload
it. The developer should explicitly document that this is a bugfix-
only upload in the changelog or sync request.
If you have doubts about if something qualifies, check with a member
of ubuntu-release (or subscribe ubuntu-release to the bug) and if
one person from ubuntu-release agrees it's a bug fix update, you're
good for upload.
Cheers,
Josh
On Mar 2, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
[Sent to: Ubuntu Studio Development, Ubuntu MOTUs, Ubuntu Release
Team]
Hello all,
Over the course of the past few months, myself, Len Ovens, and Ross
Gammon have been working hard on updating the Ubuntu Studio tools.
In particluar, we have done a number of things to the tools:
* Updated Ubuntu Studio Controls (ubuntustudio-controls) with a
number of bug fixes
* Renamed Ubuntu Studio Meta Installer to Ubuntu Studio Installer
(ubuntustudio-installer) and gave it a secondary purpose of
installing Ubuntu Studio's stack on top of a flavor other than
Ubuntu Studio (think of Ubuntu Studio as a ToolKit)
* Updated Ubuntu Studio's default theme and icon theme (part of
ubuntustudio-look and ubuntustudio-default-settings in addition to
ubuntustudio-icon-theme)
* Updated Ubuntu Studio's plymouth boot theme (part of ubuntustudio-
look)
* Added a GRUB theme (grub2-themes-ubuntustudio)
* Fixed bugs and missing apps in our menu (ubuntustudio-menu)
* Worked upstream with the developer of Carla to get Carla in
Ubuntu's repos.
Unfortunately, none of that made it in before feature freeze,
despite my mailing our development list that it needed to happen,
and tagging certain packages with [needs packaging]. Perhaps I'm
just doing it wrong.
Basically, it comes down to this: Nobody on the Ubuntu Studio Team
has upload privileges in any way. As such, these tools are sitting
waiting to be uploaded.
So now, unless I'm wrong, each one of the packages now needs a
Feature Freeze Exception to be uploaded into the repo. This is
disappointing because, as of right now, Ubuntu Studio 19.04 is
looking identical to Ubuntu Studio 18.10.
My intention was to apply to become a MOTU after the release of
19.04 in order to prevent situations like this from happening again.
Unfortunately, it looks like that will be too late unless we can get
someone to get in and review these packages:
* https://launchpad.net/grub2-themes-ubuntustudio
* https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-controls
* https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-installer
* https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-icon-theme
* https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-look
* https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-menu
* https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio-default-settings
* https://launchpad.net/carla
So, please take this as our cry for help to get these packages
updated and included. I don't know how to do this, and I've never
been shown the process. So, maybe my MOTU training sarts here.
Thank you for your time, and in advance for your help.
----
Erich Eickmeyer
Council Chair
Ubuntu Studio
ubuntustudio.org
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