Release Plan

[Milian Wolff]

Mario Chacon, 01.03.2010:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> > Andreas Pakulat, 01.03.2010:
> > > On 01.03.10 11:19:04, Niko Sams wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 21:34, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > > On 10.02.10 22:32:30, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > >> Hi,
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> as we're closing in (finally) on the 4.0 release, I'd like to make
> > > > >> some more dates fixed so people can adjust to them and more
> > > > >> importantly we have a place to point people to who ask "when is
> > > > >> 4.0 going to be released". As I said before we won't be freezing
> > > > >> for the upcoming development sprint, but I'd like to freeze
> > > > >> shortly thereafter for features. I propose the following
> > > > >> schedule:
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> March 1st  - Feature Freeze, no feature-commits, only bugfixes.
> > > > >> 
> > > > >>             i18n-changes related to spelling mistakes or bugfixes
> > 
> > are
> > 
> > > > >> ok March 3rd  - Tag and Tarball/Upload Beta9, last beta of
> > > > >> KDevelop4.0 March 5th  - Release Beta9 with official announcement
> > > > >> on the dot, including a short sketch of the final release
> > > > >> March 31st - i18n Freeze and Tagging of RC1
> > > > >> April 3rd  - RC1 release date
> > > > >> April 14th - Tag and Release RC2 (no big announcement)
> > > > >> April 28th - Tag Final
> > > > >> May 1st    - Release 4.0.0 + kdevplatform 1.0.0
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> Opinions? Objections? Unless I hear somebody screaming about this
> > > > >> until Feb. 21st I'll put this up on our wiki or techbase (not sure
> > > > >> which is better) and will let release-team and i18n-team know
> > > > >> about.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ok, done now. The full plan is up on:
> > http://www.kdevelop.org/mediawiki/index.php/KDevelop_4/4.0_Release_Sche
> > 
> > > > > dule
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've added us to the extragear techbase table too:
> > > > > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/Extragear
> > > > 
> > > > What about kdevelop-plugins?
> > > > 
> > > > Sould they have independet releases?
> > > 
> > > Whatever you want :) If you think all of the plugins in there will be
> > 
> > ready
> > 
> > > by may 1st we can do a combined release. Its your decision basically,
> > 
> > also
> > 
> > > wether you then want a kdevelop-plugins-1.0 or a separate package for
> > 
> > each
> > 
> > > plugin.
> > 
> > We should release together imo. PHP plugin is mature enough and shouldn't
> > eat
> > any children. Not sure about pets though.
> > 
> > Anyways, I'm for merging the PHP & PHP-Docs plugins and than releasing
> > kdevelop-plugins as one, i.e. PHP & Upload (Niko: will you manage to get
> > XDebug et alii into extragear by that time?).
> > 
> > Imo packagers will create separate packages for each plugin if required.
> > 
> > > I'm not sure at the moment about possible translation issues though, do
> > 
> > you
> > 
> > > have Messages.sh scripts to extract the translatable texts? Do you even
> > > have translateable texts in those plugins?
> > 
> > We do and there should be Messages.sh. That was one thing that got added
> > in the review period before we moved to extragear.
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> sorry for the interrupt, at this moment Niko and me are searching an the
> reason of this issue: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228327, well
> Niko is searching the reason of the issue, I just do what he need :D...
> 
> I think this should be fixed before the release, you have done a lot of
> work on PHP support and it works very good, beside this issue.

This is a XDebug problem only and has no effect on whether KDevelop or PHP 
plugins get released or not. And please, refrain from pushing this bug 
everywhere, Niko is aware of it and will try to fix it eventually. Be patient.

Also please don't top-post.
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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