Development Roadmap

[Biju Chacko]

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On 12 May 2003 07:29:18 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 06:39, Biju Chacko wrote:
> 
> > What do you say, we put up some hard deadlines? I propose the
> > following roadmap:
> > 
> > 12 May: Last Call for Feature requests.
> 
> Call? No need to call IMHO.

This is just so that we can say, "Sorry too late now, we gave you a
chance to ask!"

> > 15 May: Separate Feature requests into: For 4.0, For 4.2, Rejected.
> 
> Agree.
> 
> > 31 May: Feature Freeze
> 
> Why wait 2 weeks?

Time for last minute feature additions to be implemented and stabilze.

> 
> > 15 June: XFce4-BETA-1 (Announcement on fm,lwn,osnews etc)
> > (Translation Freeze)
> 
> If you remove the 15 days, you end up => 31 May.
> 
> > 15-30 June: Additional Beta releases as required.
> 
> Here I would take a bit longer.

Double it to 30 days?

> 
> > 30 June: XFce4-RC1 (Announcement on fm,lwn,osnews etc)
> > (Documentation Freeze)
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > 30 June-15 July: Additional Release Candidates as required.
> 
> Ok. Might slip a bit.

Double it to 30 days?

> 
> > 15 July: XFce4-RELEASE
> 
> 16 July: Celebrate :)

This would be pushed to 1 Aug (15 August if we keep the feature
stabilisation period).

That sound OK to you?

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