Amarok 1.4.8 scheduled

[Jeff Mitchell]

Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> On 12/7/07, Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Thursday 06 December 2007, Harald Sitter wrote:
>>     
>>> Schedule for Amarok 1.4.8 settled.
>>> * Complete string freeze on stable branch will start @ 00:00 UTC December
>>> 7. * Tarball creation is on December 16.
>>> * Public release date (which is considerable secret since people used to
>>>   publish news about the release beofre we did) of the tarball is known to
>>> me, eean and markey (considering the latter remembers :P).
>>>
>>> Everyone who wants to know the releae date, please ask.
>>>
>>> I hope we can release Amarok2 alpha1 about the same time KDE4 gets out, of
>>> course this totally depends on you ;-)
>>>       
>> Next time you guys decide on a string freeze, you should really give people
>> more than 8 hours' notice.
>>
>> I don't think it'll affect me, as I don't remember if I had anything else
>> planned to fix in 1.4.8, but for anyone who has fixes lined up that they
>> haven't gotten around to yet, they should at least get a couple days' advance
>> warning.
>>     
>
> The way I see it, stable branch is in constant string freeze anyway.
> We shouldn't modify strings unless absolutely necessary.
>   
And some day, it'll be trunk instead that gets 8 hours' notice.  Point
is, 8 hours' notice isn't enough time for any notification of any type
of freeze.  Some people will be asleep that entire time if it's 12am-8am
in their local time.

--Jeff