Re: firefly timing

[James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com>]

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On 04/02/14 08:20, Sage Weil wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, James Page wrote:
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>> On 03/02/14 18:21, Sage Weil wrote:
>>> The only time dependency that I am aware of is the looming
>>> 14.04 freeze date.  I'm hoping that we can (worst case) put an
>>> -rc release in place and update as the code stabilizes over the
>>> next several weeks.  James, will this be problematic?
>> 
>> Pushing in an RC is a good approach; what's the likely date for
>> the firefly release?  I can raise the Freeze Exception now which
>> gives our release team *lots* of notice :-)  FWIW I don't think
>> this will be a problem - we have a good track record with ceph in
>> Ubuntu now.
> 
> If we take the usual 4 weeks, it will be the second week of March,
> and an -rc will come out in the last week of February.  The freeze
> will come before the trusty freeze, but an early -rc at that point
> will be relatively raw.  I assume it will be worth building,
> though, to minimize the number of hoops to jump through.  There are
> also several users who have expressed interest in an early build
> with EC support to star their testing.

That should be OK - I'll tee things up with the release team now

Thanks

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James Page
Ubuntu and Debian Developer
james.page@ubuntu.com
jamespage@debian.org
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