Revised Release Schedule

[Allen Winter]

On Thursday 06 September 2007 9:54:59 am Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> Next try (I'll start giving up on Friday night :P) ...
> 
> As Cornelius pointed out, some days were not Wednesdays. Fair enough, 
> everything has shifted slightly forward, also having shorter rc period (which 
> is what Allen suggested). That means more bugs should be fixed by the later 
> RCs, which is probably what we want.
> 
> Also, with this new schedule, platform and RC1 are on the same day. Also looks 
> like it makes perfect sense. Libs ready, bugs are now expected in the apps. 
> 
> Ok, here goes:
> 
> 
> KDE $PLATFORM Release 
> =================
> The KDE $PLATFORM contains all the bits and pieces needed for 
> developing KDE4 applications. This includes kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs 
> and kdebase/runtime.
> 
> 3 October: Total Release Freeze, only critical bugfixes to the SDK
                                                                                            ^^$PLATFORM
> 24 October: Tagging (Wed)
> 30 October: Release (Tue)
> 
> 
> KDE 4.0 Desktop Release
> ========================
> The KDE 4.0 Desktop includes libraries, the workspace and basic applications 
> needed for a basic working environment, such as a text editor, a filemanager, 
> an email client, image and document viewers.
> 
> 26 September (Wed): Tagging KDE 4.0 Beta 3
> 2 October (Tue): Release KDE 4.0 Beta 3
> 
> October 12 (Fri): Total Release Freeze, bugfixes only
I think we could move this forward 1 week to 19 Oct.
Which still gives us 5 days to get things ready for RC1.
> 
> 24 October (Wed): Tagging KDE 4.0 RC1
> 30 October (Tue): Release RC1
> 
> 14 November (Wed): Tagging RC2
> 20 November (Tue): Release RC2
> 
> 5 December (Wed): Tagging RC-final
> 11 December (Tue): Release KDE 4.0 Desktop
> 
> 
> ACK?
Yes, except for my comments above