tagged KDE 3.96

[Allen Winter]

On Wednesday 14 November 2007 15:54:20 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 November 2007 21:21:47 Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 09:28:52 Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > I`ve tagged the current state of things as KDE 3.96. Tarballs should be
> > > ready in a few hours.
> > >
> > > For the desktop, I`m unsure what to do. I`m fine with naming it RC1 or
> > > Gamma state or Beta5. Opinions?
> >
> > My opinion :
> >  name it Beta5.
> >  Tag RC1 on 28 Nov
> >   Tag 4.0.0 on 11 Dec
> >
> > i.e. remove RC2 but keep to the 11 Dec 4.0.0. tagging schedule.
> > This way we can keep doing stuff that needs to be done rather
> > than only doing "critical" fixes.
> 
> The Release Schedule says that 4.0 would be tagged 5 Dec, and release on 11th, 
> so that means shifting it 6 days ahead. The issue why we didn't put it later 
> into December when we made the current version of the schedule was that we 
> don't want to interfere with Santa Claus, and, more important, Dirk is on 
> vacation.
> 
> I do think your proposal is good, I hope those practicalities can be solved by 
> squeezing the '6 days between tagging and release' a bit.

For the full blown desktop release I propose:

In the Release Schedule:
  replace RC1 with Beta5
  replace RC2 with RC1
keeping the dates as is.  i.e. we simply drop RC2

I don't see how we can continue to have Krush days and "big pushes"
while we are in "RC mode".  We need to stay in "Beta mode".

Heck, we could eliminate RCs completely and go directly from Beta6 to 4.0.0.
Hm... why not do that?  Or have 3-day RC period, just in case we really broke
something (like we did yesterday).

-Allen