The Bodhi activation point is also in effect

Jul 31, 2015 04:07 GMT  ·  By

A couple of days ago, Dennis Gilmore from the Fedora Project posted news about some interesting aspects of the development cycle of the upcoming Fedora 23 Linux operating system, due for release later this year, on October 27, 2015.

Mr. Gilmore informs all Fedora package maintainers that the forthcoming Alpha build of the Fedora 23 distribution is now in freeze, which means that they will no longer be able to update their packages with new features, except for patching last-minute bugs that dramatically affect the performance of their projects.

"Today is also the Alpha freeze. This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Alpha composes," says Dennis Gilmore. "Other builds will remain in updates-testing until the Alpha release is approved, at which point the Alpha freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual until the Beta freeze."

Additionally, Fedora developers are being notified that the Bodhi activation point is also in effect, along with the Software String freeze and the 'completion deadline' for the Change Checkpoint. The Fedora 23 Alpha should see the light of day on August 11, 2015 if everything goes according to plan.