Release schedule timing presentation

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Apr 4 16:23:30 UTC 2012


El Dimecres, 4 d'abril de 2012, a les 11:47:53, Will Stephenson va escriure:
> The timing on the release schedule* is confusing.
> 
> Eg "1.25 Tuesday, April 3, 2012: KDE SC 4.8.2 release" - you'd think we were
> going to release yesterday. So I enabled publishing on our repo.
> 
> But according to Dirk, to clarify developer uncertainty about how late on
> tagging day one can commit, the following phrase was inserted
> 
> "All deadlines are due 23:59 UTC, but if you need a few more hours, notify
> someone from the release team."
> 
> which puts 4.8.2 being released at earliest at Wednesday April 4 01:59 CEST,
> if you count a release as a deadline.

I think your problem is easily solved by looking at the kde.org webpage and 
having a look to see if the announcement is out or not.

> 
> I'd like to separate the code freeze/tagging deadlines from the release
> schedule so that users, press and idiot distributors like myself can easily
> see when things should happen
> 
> IIRC there is a script to generate the schedule, anyone know where it is?

playground/utils/releaseschedule

Albert

> 
> Will
> 
> *http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.8_Release_Schedule
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