KDE SC 4.5 schedule

[Tom Albers]

Op Friday 26 March 2010 21:34 schreef u:
> 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:

Thanks for that excellent work. I've changed the schedule a bit to reflect the following:

This cycle we saw that a beta1 and hard feature freeze at the same date was not optimal. People committing features last minute made packaging beta 1 a nightmare. I've now set the hard feature freeze 1 week before tagging.

This cycle we experimented a bit with a message freeze where typo fixes were allowed. I've no made it part of the release schedule by introducing a soft message freeze and a hard message freeze. See techbase page for details. 

We also experimented with releasing rc's asap after tagging. This went pretty well, though innocent looking commits broke the tarballs. To prevent that, i've introduced a tagging freeze. This means 24h before tagging no commits other than build fixes should be committed. All other commits are not allowed (including showstoppers). Showstoppers should go through reviewboard, so we can determine if it is indeed a showstopper and if it is safe to commit in relation to all platforms we support.

Final problem we had this cycle was changing dependencies until late in the schedule. I want to stop that insanity. So I added a dependency freeze at the soft feature freeze time. People should by then know what they want to add as features for that cycle and think about the dependencies they need. During the dependency freeze it is not allowed to introduce new dependencies or raise the version of existing dependencies.

I hope you agree to these changes so we can make the schedule final soonish.
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.5_Release_Schedule

Best,

Toma
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