Amarok 1.4.8 scheduled

[Harald Sitter]

Am Montag 10 Dezember 2007 20:58:51 schrieb 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.

here we go

quting my mail to i18n-doc:
> Here's the deal
> Major release + release candidates: 30 days freeze
> Usual trunk releases: 20 days freeze
> Stable releases: 10 days freeze

same now applies for notification times, hooray, we now have a release cycle 
of ~60 days for rcs and finals, hooray *cheer*

-- 
Harald Sitter
Amarok team        Project Manager         Mail: harald at getamarok.com
amarok.kde.org     Good news everyone!     Jabber: apachelogger at kdetalk.net
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