KDE SC 4.5 schedule

[Simon Edwards]

Hello,

Tom Albers wrote:
> 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:

Thanks Toma. I like the changes you've made to the different freezes. 
The later phases leading up to 4.4 didn't go very smoothly, and I think 
we can do a lot better this time. There is a lot of frustration to be saved.

> 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.

I strongly want to see an API freeze kick in at this time too. No more 
changes to APIs or header files (except docs) after this date, including 
older APIs and newly introduced libraries/APIs. I, and I think the other 
bindings people really need to have solid (not shifting!) ground to work 
on at this time in the schedule. Even minor changes which are often easy 
enough to fix, cause problems by breaking builds requiring new tarballs 
or packages to be made etc etc.

cheers,

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