4.14 post steps and 4.16 kickoff

[Simon Steinbeiss]

Hi everyone,

I feel a little silly doing that, but I'm gonna reply to my own email now
and mention that things that are still TODO.

=== 4.14 post steps ===
* Update slide 3 (currently: xfwm4) on the frontpage with something
meaningful
* Consider transifex sync for 4.14 branch and possibly deactivating 4.10
and 4.12 (whatever may still be active)

DONE:
Tour, Screenshots, xfce-4.14.0 tags, xfce-4.14 branches, Docs branched for
4.14

=== 4.16 kickoff ===
The roadmap has started to live a little, please add more things in the
next weeks (I'll be away until mid-September). I have set the deadline for
the planning phase to the end of September. I think that's enough time to
write some things down, especially if this should be a shorter/lighter
cycle. If anybody disagrees, please let me know!
https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.16/roadmap

Cheers
Simon


On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 4:54 PM Simon Steinbeiss <simon at xfce.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> this message is mostly directed towards our core devs, but I thought it
> may still be relevant for everyone to read.
>
> As we managed to stick to our deadline for the final release (mostly :))
> it's time to collect the open points from 4.14 and the first steps toward
> 4.16.
> Please help - especially with completing the 4.14 steps, so we can start
> for 4.16 with a clean slate soonish!
>
> === 4.14 post steps ===
> * Create the tour (website)
> * Finish updating the slider with new screenshots on the frontage
> * Add more screenshots to the screenshots page
> * Create xfce-4.14 branches for each core component
> * Only push bugfixes to the 4.14 branches and new features into the master
> branch
> * 4.14 patch releases shall happen on the 4.14 branches obviously
> * Consider transifex sync for 4.14 branch and possibly deactivating 4.10
> and 4.12 (whatever may still be active)
> * Consider branching the docs straight away into a 4.14 namespace (same as
> we did for 4.12) so we can anytime update the master pages during the 4.16
> cycle
>
> === 4.16 kickoff ===
> * Start to think about the roadmap and fill things in here:
> https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.16/roadmap#roadmapplanned_features
> * Consider making this a short/er cycle again, so maybe just a few
> features and some further cleanups (also, don't forget we want to migrate
> to Gitlab next)
>
> I hope that makes sense to you all. The most important bit is certainly
> about creating the branches and not pushing new features into 4.14. (What
> is bugfix and what is feature is a bit relative and obviously up to your
> own judgement.)
>
> Cheers
> Simon
>
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