KDE SC 4.5 schedule

[Matt Williams]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> hi :)
>
> Toma has noted that he won't be available to draft the 4.5 schedule. This is
> something that needs to get done. Here's a draft based on the 4.3 schedule to
> get us started with:
>
> April 26th, 2009: Soft Feature Freeze
> May 18th, 2009: Hard Feature Freeze
> May 19th, 2009: Message Freeze.
> May 19th, 2009: Tag KDE 4.5 Beta 1
> May 26th, 2009: Release KDE 4.5 Beta 1
> June 2nd, 2009: Documentation/Handbook Freeze
> June 2nd, 2009: Tag KDE 4.5 Beta 2
> June 9th, 2009: Release KDE 4.5 Beta 2
> June 23rd, 2009: Artwork and Bindings Freeze
> June 23rd, 2009: Tag KDE 4.5 RC 1
> June 30th, 2009: Release KDE 4.5 RC 1
> .. RC as needed ..
> July 28th, 2009: Tag KDE 4.5
> August 4th, 2009: Release KDE 4.5
>
> The main difference being this and the 4.3 schedule is two weeks less spent in
> beta. In part this would be because we're publishing the schedule so late in
> the cycle, and in part motivated by my experience that the beta cycles are
> pretty long as it is. There's also only two weeks between beta 1 and beta 2,
> more in line with the more aggressive beta release schedule.
>
> Since this really isn't my area of forte, input is quite welcome :)

Setting the dates to be in 2010 would be a good start :) Thanks for
getting this started though. From my point of view it's fine but in
games we're fairly flexible anyway.

Matt Williams