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opt-in beta

final beta

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Notify developers by mailing ubuntu-devel-announce:
* Pointer to beta milestone page (in launchpad)
* Reminder of beta freeze
* Request to avoid and eliminate PackageInconsistencies
* Toolchain freeze begins

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Target any relevant bugs to the beta milestone

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Review component mismatches and file any necessary main inclusion reports

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Send UserInterfaceFreeze reminder to ubuntu-devel, ubuntu-translators and ubuntu-doc, pointing out to the freeze exception process

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Clear the NBS list

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Update metapackages for all releasing derivatives

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Begin UpgradeTestingProcess

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Contact the certification team to check if any critical certification bugs remain to be resolved

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Notify James Troup to remind mirrors to check free disk space
* Include estimate of disk space requirements for pre-publishing the beta release

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Work with Marketing Communications (IRC: cezzamanizzle) and development teams to specify out minimum installation configurations

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Notify ubuntu-translation-coordinators to coordinate a fresh set of language packs which will be exported, uploaded, and built in time for beta.

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Ask design team for new default wallpaper

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Get in touch with all Ubuntu flavor leads to make sure everything is ready for Beta/Release, if the flavors are still participating and making sure appropriate test resources are available for milestone testing

opt-in beta

final beta

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Notify installer team to ensure ubiquity is up-to-date with respect to any udebs that have changed in the archive (NB: possibly obsolete as of Ubuntu 20.04).

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Notify Ubuntu, Kubuntu and other flavour contacts to create and update their Upgrade docs at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/{{{$release}}}Upgrades

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Review problems and file targeted bugs for those which need resolution for the beta:
* PackageInconsistencies
* Live filesystem build failures
* Installation bugs
* Upgrade bugs
* High-severity bugs
* Hardware support regressions
* Pending main promotions
* Oversized ISOs

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Check whether translation templates (.pot files) are up-to-date for:
* ubiquity
* ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu

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Ask ubuntu-doc for help in preparing https://help.ubuntu.com/community/{{{$release}}}Upgrades

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Ask developers (ubuntu-devel-announce) to mark their features as "Beta Available" or "Complete" in https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/{{{$release}}}/+specs

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Review iso. and confirm signoffs are accurate.

opt-in beta

final beta

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Set up framework for beta release notes
* Review bugs from last milestone and remove those fixed.

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Collect marketing input for beta release notes
* Ask the marketing team (ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com) if they have input.
* Check with Marketing (Vanessa Sammut) for themes to highlight.

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prepare the ISO tracker for the milestone and make it the default_milestone in ~cdimage/.isotracker.conf on ancientminister
* marked as "automatically publish" (so no need to change isotracker configuration on cdimage)
* lists the new milestone
* has all the images listed on the ReleaseManifest

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Check with QA (#ubuntu-testing, IRC:jibel) on results of cdrom upgrades and manual installation smoke tests.

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Discuss with ?? ( was: Matthew Nuzum and Jonathan Davies) anticipated sizes of ISO images and determine if any mirroring issues.

opt-in beta

final beta

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Announce the beta freeze on the #ubuntu-devel topic and ubuntu-devel-announce. There is generally no need to tell people to hold off on uploads, as they will be held automatically by Soyuz once the next task is performed.

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Put the archive into pre-release freeze state (this requires #webops powers)

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Ask somebody who can su to ubuntu-archive on snakefruit to enable the cronjob for auto-accepting unseeded uploads.

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Add a freeze block, using generate-freeze-block from ubuntu-archive-tools, on britney to keep uploads from migrating out of -proposed.

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Selectively accept package uploads to resolve targeted bugs

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All image problems should be resolved, and the archive consistent
* PackageInconsistencies
* Live filesystem build failures
* Pending main promotions

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Notify Colin Watson (or other buildd admin) to begin rebuild testing

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Stop all live filesystem and cdimage cron jobs

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Modify debian-cd/CONF.sh by setting OFFICIAL to "Beta".

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Produce full set of images

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Notify Ubuntu QA team (jibel) to begin ReleaseValidationProcess

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Notify Hardware Certification team (ara) to begin https://wiki.canonical.com/UbuntuPlatform/HardwareCertification/Process (private due to agreements with vendors)

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Notify commercial engineering QA team (email: jeffrey.chang@canonical.com AND cc: steve.magoun@canonical.com) to begin testing.

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Notify commercial engineering (email: david.murphy@canonical.com AND cc: ce-infrastructure@lists.canonical.com; IRC: schwuk) that the archive is in a consistent state

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1. Iteratively test and accept select showstopper fixes
* Make sure to clear the testing grid for each iteration

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Request input for the beta announcement from the leads of the community products.

opt-in beta

final beta

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Update the release notes with the changes for this release (including community input)
* Work with development leads to make sure that highlights of changes since last milestone, are overviewed.
* Work with QA team(s) to make sure that any caveats and warnings present in the image are documented.

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Prepare the release announcement. For cloud images, remember to write to use the daily images equal or newer than the images we have built for other flavors.

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Review beta-targeted bugs and take final decisions on what to fix and what to defer

opt-in beta

final beta

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Update release notes with the bugs found from testing that are not going to be fixed.

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Pre-publish the CD images: ./publish-image-set --prepublish (from lp:ubuntu-archive-tools) will print the necessary commands.

opt-in beta

final beta

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1. Review the testing status of images and ensure all have been tested before being released.

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Generate corresponding source images with ALL_PROJECTS="list of participating flavors" cron.source. Be advised that this step can take a considerate amount of time.

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Archive any previous milestone images to old-images.

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Disable mirror syncing on ancientminister, by creating /srv/cdimage.ubuntu.com/etc/STOP_SYNC_MIRRORS

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Publish the CD images: ./publish-image-set will print the necessary commands.
* You need to edit cdimage/www/simple/HEADER.html and cdimage/www/simple/.htaccess by hand to add an entry for the new beta release, since neither publish-release nor publish-image-set is yet smart enough to do the right thing there.

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Copy .manifest to .manifest.full, pruning all images from previous releases from the .manifest file to allow timely mirror probing.

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Re-enable mirror-syncing by removing /srv/cdimage.ubuntu.com/etc/STOP_SYNC_MIRRORS

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Remove any not-yet-official warnings from the announcement and release notes

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Check torrents for proper functionality

opt-in beta

final beta

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Update the topic on #ubuntu-devel

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Send the release announcement to ubuntu-devel-announce

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Send the release announcement to ubuntu-announce

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Post announcement to Launchpad (ubuntu-drivers members have posting rights)
* Use ubuntu-announce email subject as Headline
* Use ubuntu-announce email body intro as the Summary
* Use the mailing list archive URL for the ubuntu-announce email as the URL

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Add a note, atop wiki pages for previous alphas/betas, to point to the just-released one

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Change default_milestone in ~cdimage/.isotracker.conf back to "Daily" (etc.)

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Turn live filesystem and cdimage cron jobs back on.

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Mark the milestone Released on the ISO tracker

opt-in beta

final beta

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Modify debian-cd/CONF.sh by setting OFFICIAL to "Daily"

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Call for translations
* Send to ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com
* Reminder of deadlines for both langpackable and non-langpackable translations
* Include current translation statistics

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If this will be an LTS release, notify ubuntu-devel-announce of any special post-release support plans, such as point releases

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If any changes were made to this document in this run, check whether the changes also apply to the other release process documents as well.

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Remove the freeze block from britney.

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Begin preliminary steps from NewReleaseCycleProcess.

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Continue on BetaProcess

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Continue to ReleaseCandidateProcess.
* Work with universe/multiverse community to identify delegates to approve Feature Freeze Exceptions, in addition to ubuntu-release until the date of Final Freeze for universe.
* Set the Final Freeze date (typically at release minus 1.5 days) for universe/multiverse for the packages that are NOT found on any installation media.
* Broadcast universe/multiverse delegates and final freeze date to ubuntu-devel.

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Change daily builds to comment out any architectures that have not been tested during this point (that we are not releasing).

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Security team: audit the set of kernel source packages in main to confirm that there are maintenance resources for each of these.