Development Roadmap

[edscott wilson garcia]

Hiya Biju, Jasper, Olivier, 

Since I'm also very optimistic, bug reports between 15 May and
XFce4-RELEASE will be few and very easy to fix. 

Why don't we start a clean xfce4 branch in preparation for XFce4-RELEASE
with the current feature freeze and leave xfce-devel for devel?

Just my two cents. :-)

Edscott

ps. Yes, it would be tedious to re-add stuff to a new branch, but 
easier if we split the work amongst us.




At a first glance I tend to think 

El lun, 12-05-2003 a las 01:09, Biju Chacko escribió:
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> On 12 May 2003 07:29:18 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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> > 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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