UserInterfaceFreeze

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No changes to the user interface or major artwork components beyond this point. The user interface must be stabilized at some point, so that documentation writers and translators can work on a fixed target, without unnoticedly breaking screenshots and documentation.
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Exceptions requiring confirmation: After the user interface freeze (UIF), the following things must not change any more without approval of the release team and notification to the documentation team:
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 * ReleaseCriticalBug
 * SecurityCriticalBug
 * Exceptional circumstances
 * Acts of God
 * the user interface of individual applications which are installed by default,
 * the appearance of the desktop,
 * the distribution specific artwork,
 * all user-visible strings in applications and the desktop.

See FreezeExceptionProcess for how to get an exception.

The user interface must be stabilized at some point, so that documentation writers and translators can work on a fixed target, without unnoticedly breaking screenshots and documentation.

After the user interface freeze (UIF), the following things must not change any more without approval of the release team and notification to the documentation team:

  • the user interface of individual applications which are installed by default,
  • the appearance of the desktop,
  • the distribution specific artwork,
  • all user-visible strings in applications and the desktop.

See FreezeExceptionProcess for how to get an exception.

UserInterfaceFreeze (last edited 2013-10-01 11:02:16 by cpc5-clif9-2-0-cust434)