Did he say anything?

The message is merely to stir up knowledge of the fact that "let us begin planning the Ubuntu
8.10 features". Without the message, people could only start to wonder about new features when
8.04 LTS is released, now there's two months' time to develop ideas and foundation before the
actual development begins.

I think it's a very good thing, because otherwise the first month or so of quite precious 6
months release cycle might be spend only with syncing from Debian and pondering what features
would actually be wanted.