[Test-Announce] Fedora 32 Beta Freeze
Hi all,
Today's an important day on the Fedora 32 schedule[1], with several
significant cut-offs. First of all today is the Bodhi activation point
[2]. That means that from now on all Fedora 32 packages must be
submitted to updates-testing and pass the relevant requirements[3]
before they will be marked as 'stable' and moved to the fedora
repository.
Today is also the Beta freeze[4]. This means that only packages which
fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs[5][6] will be marked as
'stable' and included in the Beta composes. Other builds will remain
in updates-testing until the Beta release is approved, at which point
the Beta freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual
until the Final freeze.
Finally, today is the '100% code complete deadline' Change
Checkpoint[5], meaning that Fedora 32 Changes must now be code
complete, meaning all the code required to enable the new change is
finished. The level of code completeness is reflected as tracker bug
state ON_QA. The change does not have to be fully tested by this
deadline'.
Finally, today is also the Software String freeze[7], which means that
strings marked for translation in Fedora-translated projects should
not now be changed for Fedora 32.
Mohan Boddu
[1] https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-32/f-32-key-tasks.html
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Bodhi_enabling
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Branched_release
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[7] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy