4.2 Schedule.

[Sebastian Kuegler]

On Monday 16 June 2008 18:12:08 Tom Albers wrote:
> As we are approaching the final 4.1 release, I think we can think about the
> schedule for 4.2 a bit and brainstorm about what we like and don't like. To
> kick off the discussion, let me throw some ideas around.
>
> Because we became a lot more stable during the 4.1 development, I think we
> can give it a bit more feature development in the next release. So I would
> like to suggest to skip the alfa1 completely. Or if you insist, remove one
> of the beta's and call that alfa. I just don't like the term alfa anymore,
> as it does not seem to get tested, so I rather keep it with the two beta's.

One of the obvious differences is that alpha is source-only, IIRC. I do agree 
with your assessment that we'll need less time to stabilise, I support your 
suggestion.

> Also, I think the two beta's should be closer together, like 2 or 3 weeks,
> but this requires to reduce the time between tagging and releasing (say
> tagging on Tuesday, release on Friday), else there is not much time for the
> users to test the beta.
>
> So, all in all, that would be something like:
>
> August - early December: free hacking
> ~15 December Release Beta 1
> ~3 January Release Beta 2
> ~17 January Release RC 1
> ~30 January Release Final

From a quick look at the calendar, that looks good to me.
-- 
sebas

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