Post 2.0.0 release plan discussion

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> markey, lfranchi and I had a discussion about how to handle the first
> few releases after 2.0.0 that I think it makes sense to summarize here
> so others can comment.
>
>
> The main point is that we should do a number of very fast 2.0.x bugfix
> releases. A sane proposal would be do to 2 3 week release cycles ( 2
> weeks development, 1 week freeze ) for 2.0.1 and 2.0.2. This will
> allow us to quickly respond to the worst bugs that show up after the
> final is released.
>
> The main point of discussion is how to handle trunk, and when to
> branch off the 2.0.x branch. There was agreement that at the very
> least, 2.0.1 should be developed in trunk. This is simply to encourage
> people to help out with fixing the worst bugs rather than go out and
> start implementing huge new features (I know that we are all itching
> to do this, I have several projects lined up that I cannot wait to get
> started on, but handling the worst bugs now will save us a lot of time
> and trouble later). Personally, I currently think that it makes sense
> to do 2.0.2 in trunk as well (but this might change depending on the
> number and severity of bugs and how 2.0.1 turns out) others think we
> should branch off right after 2.0.1.
>
> The main point of this though, is that we need to set some fixed dates
> for freezes and releases so that these first 2 releases do not drag
> out.


Ok, before we decide on how we are going to do it we should decide on
what we are going to do.
So first of all please everyone let me/us know about their post 2.0
plans. No bikesheding and/or discussion here! Just tell what you want
to work on. Brainstorming! Everything is allowed.
Once we have that we can see how we are going to to this and when. I
can make a rough proposal once everyone wrote down their plans and
then we can discuss it. This also makes it a lot easier to draw up a
timeline to stick to.


Cheers
Lydia

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Lydia Pintscher
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