[Kmymoney-devel] Proposed string and feature-freeze and release date

[Cristian Oneţ]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2010.07.22 20:08, Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> the removal of the last pieces of Qt3Support by Cristian enables us to
>> go into string- and feature-freeze and then release the stable for KDE
>> Platform 4.
>>
>> Jack asked me for a few days notice before the freeze. Now, we could
>> go into freeze this Monday July 26th, to allow the weekend for any big
>> changes. After that, it would be 3 weeks of freeze and the release
>> sometime around August 16th.
>>
>> Beginning the freeze, only bug-related commits are allowed.
>> 3 days before release (sometime around August 13th), only critical or
>> compile-crash commits are allowed.
>> As usual, once we are in string-freeze, any change to a string has to
>> be pre-approved by the kde-i18n-doc teams and they have to be CC'ed on
>> the commits. Spelling mistakes are the only exception, but CC the i18n
>> list on the commit, so they can tell why they have new fuzzy strings.
>>
>> Let me know if you agree with the dates, so we let other teams know
>> about it.
>>
>> I have to say I'm very happy we've made it this far. Only a few weeks
>> left and the stable release will be out the door.

If the string freeze is OK with Jack then I see no further
difficulties in declaring the string freeze beginning with Monday July
the 26th. During that period we can fix all the bugs that we have and
improve other stuff like the build system, etc.

> That gives me three days for the rest of changes to the handbook.  I'm
> OK with that - but if anybody has things they think need to be changed
> (in the handbook) let me know.  Otherwise, I'll do the FAQ and then a
> quick search through my notes and emails for other high priority
> changes (and I know there are one or two screenshots that need to
> reflect recent changes.)

I don't know if you already mentioned in the handbook this feature
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228492
After it was implemented I didn't heard anything about it so maybe it
just needs some publicity :). I've sent a mail to this list a while
ago where I've said a few things about this feature. Thanks!

Regards,
Cristian