Release Schedule

[Martin Klapetek]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 00:52, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk>wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Daniele E. Domenichelli
> <daniele.domenichelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 21/07/11 00:40, David Edmundson wrote:
> >> Ok, with the release happening, here is the plan:
> >>   - Feature freeze as of tomorrow night. Any features after 10pm
> >> tomorrow won't be in the first release
> >>   - Fixes can go on till Friday night, keep fixing trunk
> >>   - At this point, we make 0.1 branches in every component
> >>   - These get packaged and shipped on Thursday
> >
> >
> > Some questions:
> >
> > - Do we have scripts to create the tarballs?
> No. Do we need them?
>

Probably not.

> - Where do we upload the tarballs?
> Don't know - any ideas?
>

Does KDE provide any kind of "release space"? Otherwise I think it's ok to
put the tarballs to whatever place, important is to get links among people
(we need to decide this ASAP so we can put those link in promo notes).


> > - Who will create the tarballs?
> Don't know - volunteers?
>

I know virtually nothing about packaging, so probably not me. But it should
be just making a snapshot of the git repos, right?


> >
>
> I had planned to make a branch of every repository we're shipping
> called telepathy-kde-0.1.
> It's how telepathy-qt4 do it, and they're generally good at everything.
>
> From here anyone can generate a tarball.
>
> Dear packagers,
> What stuff do you need?
> If you run a repo, could you let me know with the address, and update
> this wiki page
> http://community.kde.org/Real-Time_Communication_and_Collaboration/Packaging_Guide
>
> >
> > About the blog post(s) announcing the release, we have a lot of things
> > to say, but not many people will read a long article, so we were
> > thinking about having several posts, one per component. What do you
> > think about writing blog posts following the same schema? For example:
> >
> > [Announcement] Telepathy-KDE 0.1 released! part X of Y - component name
> >   [...]
> >   description of the component
> >   [...]
> >   Links to the other parts of the announcement
> >
> Fine by me, I volunteer to do one post, any others? Decide who does what.
>

I'm taking contact list.

--
Marty K.


> >
> > Cheers,
> >  Daniele
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