[11:21] <guruprasad> cjwatson, do you remember what involvement the LP team has with opening a new series. The release team shared a card with us which just has a link to the documentation on stopping fragile services, followed by another card that has instructions for IS to do to open the series. I am guessing that these two are related to each other and need to be done one after the other.
[11:26] <guruprasad> I got some additional context from Clinton, who did this the last time, confirming this
[11:27] <cjwatson> guruprasad: I'm pretty sure it's all in the checklist.  https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/ubuntu-release-tools/+git/templates/tree/jira-milestones/devel-release/new-cycle-opening.yaml is I believe the full current checklist if you need more context
[11:29] <guruprasad> Ah, this is very useful. Thanks!
[11:29] <cjwatson> guruprasad: From "Request Launchpad disable the primary Ubuntu publisher cron jobs" through to "Permanently re-enable the Soyuz publisher cron job" is the section where Launchpad is typically involved - best to allocate a block of a couple of hours so that you can do that all promptly without distractions
[11:30] <cjwatson> guruprasad: And have both somebody from IS and an Ubuntu archive admin on hand
[11:32] <cjwatson> (when I say "so that you can do ..." I mean you-plural - who can actually execute any given step bounces around a bit, but LP should be attentive all the way through that)
[12:40] <guruprasad> cjwatson, thanks for providing more context