KDE SC 4.6 Schedule

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Divendres, 21 de maig de 2010, Tom Albers va escriure:
> On Fri, 21 May 2010 12:41:54 +0200, Will Stephenson <wstephenson at kde.org>
> 
> wrote:
> > With my distribution hat on I'm wondering when KDE SC 4.6 will come out.
> 
> Hi Will,
> 
> If we aim for the end of january, I suggest the schedule below. In
> trunk/playground/utils/releaseschedule I've just committed an application
> which can help us create this schedule automatically. If anyone wants to
> play with different freeze times, feel free, it has loads of settings to
> fiddle with. Beta testers also welcome :)
> 
> Proposed 4.6.0 schedule as generated by this application:
> 
> Thursday, October 28, 2010 - Soft Feature Freeze
> Trunk is frozen for feature commits that are not listed in the  planned
> feature document. Only bugfixes and the code implementing the listed
> features are to be committed after this date. The feature list also closes
> today.
> 
> Features not already finished or not listed on the planned features page
> will have to wait until the next KDE SC release.
> 
> Thursday, November 11, 2010 - Soft Message Freeze
> All translated messages (GUI strings) are frozen on this date. Only
> previously untranslated strings or clear errors in strings can be fixed. No
> major new strings changes should be done. It is ok to remove strings.
> Exception: Artwork (try to keep the number of new strings low anyways).
> Exception: Typo fixes can be fixed until Beta2 is released but you have to
> mail kde-i18n-doc saying you made a typo fix change.
> 
> Thursday, November 11, 2010 - Soft API Freeze
> To allow the bindings people to have proper time to do their work in
> preparation to the final release, the API should now be mostly fixed.
> Changing API is allowed, but commits have to be cc'ed to the kde-bindings
> mailinglist. This is including older APIs and newly introduced
> libraries/APIs.
> 
> Thursday, November 11, 2010 - Dependency Freeze
> From this moment on it is not allowed to add new dependencies or bump
> dependencies versions. It is possible to get an exception for this. Post
> the patch to reviewboard and add the release-team as reviewer. We will
> check if the dependency is needed and is available on all platforms.
> 
> In other words: If you have a feature that requires a new dependency or a
> version of a dependency that is higher than currently checked for in the
> build system, you need to have committed this change before this date.
> 
> Thursday, November 11, 2010 - Hard Feature Freeze
> Trunk is frozen for all feature commits, even those listed in the planned
> feature document. Only bug fixes are allowed.
> 
> Thursday, November 18, 2010 - Beta 1 Tagging
> Trunk is frozen for beta release tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as those
> fixing compilation errors, should be committed. The usual beta rules apply
> as soon as the Beta tarballs have been generated.
> 
> Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - Beta 1 Release
> The beta becomes available for general consumption.
> 
> Monday, November 29, 2010 - Documentatin Freeze
> No more substantive changes to documentation or handbooks after this date.
> Typos, spelling and simple grammar changes are permitted.
> 
> Thursday, December 2, 2010 - Beta 2 Tagging
> Trunk is frozen for beta release tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as those
> fixing compilation errors, should be committed. The usual beta rules apply
> as soon as the Beta tarballs have been generated.
> 
> Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - Beta 2 Release
> The beta becomes available for general consumption.
> 
> Monday, December 20, 2010 - Tagging Freeze  for Release Candidate 1
> During tagging freeze only compilation fixes for all platforms are allowed
> to be committed. Everything else (even showstopper fixes) *have* to be run
> through reviewboard, with the release-team and the affected maintainers as
> reviewer.
> 
> Monday, December 20, 2010 - Hard API Freeze
> To allow the bindings people to have proper time to do there work in
> preparation to the final release, the API is now frozen. No more changes to
> APIs or header files (except docs) after this date, including older APIs
> and newly introduced libraries/APIs.
> 
> Monday, December 20, 2010 - Hard Message Freeze
> Up to now you were able to do typo changes, but you had to mail
> kde-i18n-doc saying you made a typo fix change. From this moment on you
> need an explicit ok beforehand from kde-i18n-doc for every single string
> change.
> 
> Monday, December 20, 2010 - Artwork and Bindings Freeze
> All artwork is frozen on this date. No new artwork should be added.
> Existing artwork can continue to be tweaked and fixed.
> 
> No new additions to the language bindings, except optional bindings as
> permitting by the kde-bindings team.
> 
> Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - Release Candidate 1 Tagging
> Trunk is frozen for release candidate tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as
> those fixing compilation errors, should be committed.
> 
> Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - Release Candidate 1 Release
> The release candidate is tagged from the branch. Only urgent fixes, such
> as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed.As soon as the RC
> has been confirmed to build it will be released immediately.
> 
> Monday, January 3, 2011 - Tagging Freeze  for Release Candidate 2
> During tagging freeze only compilation fixes for all platforms are allowed
> to be committed. Everything else (even showstopper fixes) *have* to be run
> through reviewboard, with the release-team and the affected maintainers as
> reviewer.
> 
> Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - Release Candidate 2 Tagging
> Trunk is frozen for release candidate tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as
> those fixing compilation errors, should be committed.
> 
> Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - Release Candidate 2 Release
> The release candidate is tagged from the branch. Only urgent fixes, such
> as those fixing compilation errors, should be committed.As soon as the RC
> has been confirmed to build it will be released immediately.
> 
> Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - Final Tag
> The branch is frozen for final release tagging. Only urgent fixes, such as
> those fixing compilation errors, should be committed.
> 
> Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - Release
> Final release is released for general consumption.

I like it.

Albert