On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> The primary freeze date is today.  You can get the relevant frozen
> stacks by running:
>
> apt-get install ros-fuerte-desktop-full
>
> The freeze is very important due to the schedule slip.  As a helpful
> reminder, odd-numbered minor versions, such as 1.7, are used to
> indicate unstable development versions. Please release with
> even-numbered minor versions, such as 1.8, to indicate that the stack
> development is now frozen.  FYI: ros_comm is being held at a 1.7
> unstable version until some remaining integrations issues with roslisp
> are fixed.
>
> Please make sure your release scripts are up-to-date:
>
> sudo pip install -U rosrelease
>
> Links:
>
> http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Migration
> http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning

A further request: please take this opportunity to scrub the issue
tracker(s) for your stack(s).  Now is a good time to fix bugs and
apply patches.  And pay particular attention to those older tickets,
especially the ones with user-supplied patches.

	thanks,
	brian.