Scheduling release of 5.5.0 for 20.02

[Milian Wolff]

On Dienstag, 7. Januar 2020 23:12:07 CET Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi KDevelop contributors, late Happy New Year once more,
> 
> having flushed out 5.4.6 yesterday, the little time it took me to do this
> given experience & scripts, seeing how many commits have piled up in the
> master branch since 5.4 was branched almost 6 months ago and seeing that no-
> one has yet actively taken the role of being the new release manager, I
> hereby offer/propose to have myself do kick off a new branch 5.5 in the
> next weeks still. This delays a bit my previous plans to step back now, but
> not completely though, getting 5.5.0 out would be my last contribution
> here.
> 
> So my idea would be: branch off 5.5 later in January, release first in
> February, and no further 5.4 version (unless grave bugs appear).
> 
> 
> Proposed schedule:
> 
> Sunday, January 19th (CET evening):
> * branch off 5.5 from master
> * string freeze in 5.5 branch
> 
> Monday, January 20th:
> * 5.5 Beta 1 release
> 
> Monday, February 3rd  (2 weeks after Beta 1):
> * 5.5.0 release, unless release blockers found
> 
> 5.5.1 & ff. then will need you as new release manager finally.
> 
> If I hear no objections until proposed branching day, I would execute this
> plan :)
> 
> 
> Anyone having stuff which should end up in 5.5, please peek & poke your
> KDevelop peers to get things reviewed & in. Everyone also please see the
> currently open review requests for if you can give feedback by reviewing the
> code & testing:
> https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdevelop/merge_requests
> https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdev-python/merge_requests
> https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/kdevelop/ (reviews)
> 
> Sorry, no time/energy myself to do review work, as before.

Thanks Friedrich, sounds good!

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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