Amarok 1.4.8 scheduled

[Jeff Mitchell]

Harald Sitter wrote:
> 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*
>
>   
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