Release dates/nomenclature -- Revised proposal

[Allen Winter]

On Monday 03 September 2007 10:51:37 am Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> I've seen no reaction to this email, but I think the current schedule (release 
> 20 dec) is broken (Dirk is on vacation, it's too close to christmas for PR).
> 
> Can I at least get a "shut up, you're irrelevant" answer, maybe something more 
> promising?
> 
Your counter-counter-proposal is close.
Except that I try to schedule taggings on Wednesdays.
That gives us 2 days to recover from BIC Mondays.

Also, I like Dirk's idea of a libs release in late October.
The libs release should include kdesupport, kdelibs, and kdepimlibs 

So please try again :)


> On Saturday 01 September 2007 15:57:57 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Saturday 01 September 2007 12:28:31 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > > > So let's aim for a release on my mother's birthday, 13th December.
> > >
> > > I vote for 6th December, it's my father birthday.
> >
> > That would be the tagging date then :-)
> >
> > How about this, then. It's mainly what Dirk and Allen proposed.
> >
> > Thursday, 6 September: Release Beta2 (already tagged)
> >
> > September 24, 2007: Tagging Beta3 (This is a Monday, does that make sense?)
> > October 2 2007: Release Beta3
> >
> > October 22, 2007: Tagging Beta4 (Again, a Monday)
> > October 30 2007: Release Beta4 (Beta4 is only 2 weeks long)
> >
> > November 5, 2007: Total Release Freeze (a Monday)
> >
> > November 13 2007: Tagging Release Candidate 1 (move closer to the freeze?)
> > November 20 2007: Release Release Candidate 1
> >
> > November 21 2007: Tagging Release Candidate 2 (to close to -rc1?)
> > November 27 2007: Release Release Candidate 2
> >
> > December 6  2007: Tagging final Release
> > December 13 2007: Targeted Release Date
> >
> >
> > * We should probably move the tagging and release for the following betas
> >   closer to each other, maybe tagging on Fridays, releasing on Tuesdays? Is
> >   that doable for testing and packaging?
> >
> > * Should we move tagging away from Monday? Or when will we suspend the BIC
> >   Monday?



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