[ Thanks to Linux User &
Developer magazine for this link. ]
“Ubuntu 10.10 (codename Maverick Meerkat) is well into
the development cycle, with the planned celebrity release date of
10 October 2010 (10/10/10). The development time frame of Ubuntu is
quite condensed, and this is managed with a number of stages. These
stages tend to symbolise milestones of the schedule, and usually
refer to a restriction on what activity can happen during this
time.“We have long passed the Alpha 1 CD image stage and I anticipate
the release of Alpha 2 by the time you read this. You will no doubt
be eager to test Alpha 3, which is currently scheduled for 5
August. Alpha 3 will be the last CD image created before the
development of Maverick starts entering the second half of the
‘freeze’ stages.“The freeze stages we have already passed include ‘Feature
Definition Freeze’, which was on 17 June. This is defined as
packages in the ‘main’ repository that will have new features in
this cycle and will need to be defined by this date. One of the
primary reasons for this is that changes in the ‘main’ archive tend
to have larger consequential issues for others, as this archive
constitutes the bones of everything else.”