Release process review and discussion

Registered by Stéphane Graber

This is the usual UDS session where we review the past release and discuss the one ahead.
Things we should look into:
 - Confirm the current release schedule makes sense
 - Get volunteers for the various milestones
 - Evaluate the performance of our New, SRU and MIR process and discuss ways to improve those when needed.
 - Anything else that's relevant to the release, sru, mir or cdimage team

Blueprint information

Status:
Not started
Approver:
Steve Langasek
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
Stéphane Graber
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
None
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for trusty
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
milestone icon ubuntu-14.04

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Whiteboard

Release task signup is available for filling in at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseTaskSignup

Schedule Concern: Currently https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseSchedule calls for 12.04.4 on 1/23/2014 and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseSchedule calls for 14.04 alpha 2 on the same day. Suggest that 14.04 alpha 2 get pushed to the following week.

I'd much rather move 12.04.4 than move the alpha, to be fair. The schedule of a devel release is pretty tight, and throwing people off by a week can be awful, LTS point releases are a lot more flexible.

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Work Items

Work items:
[vorlon] check with PES/OEM/cert to make sure we are ok to delay 12.04.4 by one or two weeks: DONE
[smoser] confirm with robbiew that it suffices to have 0-day SRUs of openstack in 14.04 the day of release : TODO
[vorlon] follow up jriddell/ScottK to see who wants to release manage alpha2 : TODO
[vorlon] discuss on ubuntu-release having alpha milestone freezes shortened to 2 days : TODO
[kate.stewart] put a call out for participation to the opt-in milestones to the flavors, and summarize on a wiki page : TODO