Release Schedule

[David Edmundson]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:45 AM, George Goldberg
<grundleborg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the top post - just need to put this out there:
>
> We *must* promote this as an *alpha* or *tech preview* or something
> release. This is simply because we have completely bypassed the
> correct procedures used by KDE for releasing software. Before we can
> make any kind of final release, we need to go through the KDE Review
> process and into extragear or somewhere. This is something we should
> look at doing once we have made a couple more preview releases and the
> basic feature set has settled down. For a technical preview release it
> seems reasonable to release it as a git snapshot straight from
> playground (where we currently reside), but for a proper release, this
> is *not* OK.

Ok, lets all use the term "Technical Preview" so we're consistent.
I don't think any of us see it as anything beyond that, but you're
right that we need to communicate it better to the external people.

I'm a bit busy till this evening - if someone else could make the
branches in the repos / the tarballs, that would be awesome.

>
> 2011/7/23 Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:16, George Kiagiadakis
>> <kiagiadakis.george at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2011/7/23 Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com>:
>>> > 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?
>>>
>>> git archive --format=tar --prefix=telepathy-kde-$COMPONENT-$VERSION/
>>> HEAD | bzip2 -9 > telepathy-kde-$COMPONENT-$VERSION.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> ;)
>>>
>>> > 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).
>>>
>>> The KDE ftp server. Someone needs to ask the sysadmins...
>>
>> <bcooksley> mck182: upload your files to upload.kde.org
>> <bcooksley> there is a file there "README" which lays out the steps you need
>> to take to get it uploaded
>> <bcooksley> to the main ftp.kde.org + mirror network
>>
>>>
>>> >>
>>> >> > - 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 can do that...
>>> Snapshots of the git repos it is, unless we want to do something more
>>> monolithic...
>>>
>>> PS: What should be the names of the tarballs? For some of the
>>> comonents (for instance, the text-ui), the repo name is not the best
>>> to use in the tarball. I would suggest to use the names that I used in
>>> the debian packages (see [1]), but I'm open to other ideas...
>>
>> I agree. Let's go with these names. It will be less confusing for everyone.
>>
>>>
>>> [1]. http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/gkiagia (telepathy-kde-* repos)
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