Release Plan

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 20.10.08 22:34:59, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 20.10.08 15:13:06, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > On Monday 20 October 2008 10:58:21 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > On 20.10.08 10:30:13, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > > > So if we've started a feature, we don't get time to finish it? That's not
> > > > even how the KDE release schedule works.
> > >
> > > Actually, it works exactly like that. The Soft Feature Freeze starts with
> > > the first Alpha-Release, i.e. tomorrow. From that time on, no new feature
> > > can be started. Then at some point there's the first beta, at that point in
> > > time your feature must be complete, it may contain bugs, but the
> > > functionality needs to be there - or it needs to be removed again until
> > > trunk is unfrozen.
> > 
> > That's an oversimplification. After the KDE soft feature freeze, the feature 
> > list is frozen and only new features that are on the feature list can be 
> > added.
> 
> Last I heard thats not true, features that haven't been started before the
> soft freeze are not allowed to be part of the release. I can't check
> techbase right now wether its written down there

Techbase just got back working. Yes you're right, new features are allowed
in as long as they've been put onto the plan before the soft freeze.
Nonetheless I still don't see how that contradicts with what I planned.

Andreas

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