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What an absolute shitshow

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, it is not a good time. A project like Ubuntu should now be in freeze as they had about 3 months before release

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), and Donny Kerabatsos (Steve Buscemi) in the 3rd bowling alley scene in The Big Lebowski (1998), with subtitle "Year? Well, you know, that's just like your opinion, man."

This bug was reported (and resolved by rolling back to the GNU coreutils version of cp) on June 30, a little over 15 weeks prior to the scheduled release date.

Which distros have a feature freeze that far in advance?

Ubuntu hasn't even scheduled theirs for 26.10 yet; if you edit that url to look at previous releases' schedules you can see their feature freeze and debian import freezes are typically about 2 months prior to release. (See here for descriptions of all of the different types of freezes...)