Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: How we get there

“What I want to talk about, though, is not the individual
projects we’re working on. I want to explain how the whole thing
comes together, and what’s happening behind the scenes to make
10.04 LTS different from other Ubuntu releases.

“Changing the focus

“Robbie Williamson, engineering manager for the foundations
team, has captured the big picture in the LTS release plan, the key
elements of which are: Merge from Debian testing

“By merging from Debian testing, rather than the usual unstable,
we aim to avoid regressions early in the release cycle which tend
to block development work. So far, Lucid has been surprisingly
usable in its first weeks, compared to previous Ubuntu
releases.”

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