KDE Feel Good Release Planning
Tom Albers
toma at kde.org
Wed Jan 6 18:58:37 CET 2010
Op Wednesday 06 January 2010 18:51 schreef u:
> Tacky title notwithstanding, Dirk will tag -rc1 later tonight. We want this to
> be a
> Feel Good release, and settled with the following (for now, you might want to
> object,
> in that case: do it now):
>
> - Tagging of rc1 tonight, in the coming hours
> - RC1 gets out as soon as it "Feels Good", i.e. builds and is not an obvious
> lemon
> - Branching 4.4/ and re-opening trunk happens when tagging RC2 (19th Jan) (*)
>
> The rest, we want to keep as is laid out in the schedule.
>
> After branching , we would like to stress that your main work branch is 4.4
> then, so
> we can iron out a bunch of more kinks and make people even happier about 4.4.1
> (remember, that's what they'll all be using for half a year or more).
>
> As to the later branching, it's a balance between "we want people to actually
> run and
> polish the release" and "we don't want to hold back to many people by too
> strict
> commit rules in the freeze".
>
> If everybody's OK with this, I'll change techbase.
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.4_Release_Schedule
>
> Cheers,
The schedule says RC1 is branch point, I really don't see any urgent reason in this mail to deviate from that. If we want to we can change it for the 4.5 schedule of course...
Toma
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