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Bug#930534: Bug#930521: release.debian.org: provide machine-readable information about the freeze period for each release



Hi Paul,

On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:17:51 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> In order to implement the request below (hide some suggestions from
> tracker.d.o during the freeze (and possibly other things)), we need a
> machine-readable information source about the current stage of the
> freeze and what that means for new upstream releases. I suggest that
> this come in the form of a YAML/JSON file in the testing directory
> containing start dates for each stage of the freeze and an end date
> once that is known. Each stage could be accompanied by some sort of
> metadata about the freeze policy, so that the tracker could also give
> advice on what to upload and what not to upload.
> 
> https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze.yaml

We already have a maintained agenda for the team [1]. Would it make
sense to use that somehow? I fear that having an additional place (next
to the freeze_policy document [2]) to store this is likely to get out of
sync.

Paul

[1] http://release.debian.org/release-calendar.ics
[2] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html

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