On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> To avoid getting into the same situation as the current one, I'd like
> to have a plan for the next release.
>
> I believe we should move to time-based releases such as kernel,
> firefox and others do, making the life of distributions easier as
> well.
>
>   Freeze: 22-February
>   Alpha: 1-March
>   Beta: 8-March
>   Release: 15-March (guess, if no extra beta/alpha is required)
>
> It would be also great to define the policy of new features. With the
> recent release we got some last-minute features to a codebase that was
> very stable (multisense and lua for Edje), this added some turbulence
> to the process and part of them were disabled at the end.
>    With that said, if you have big features please merge them
> complete and at least somehow tested by more than you (ie: create a
> branch, send patches to maillist, ...). Otherwise wait 4 weeks more
> and you'll get it in! During this time you can easily keep the
> aforementioned branch or patchset for broader test.
>
> What do you think?

I agree. But raster should not be always the release manager. So the first 
thing to do is writing a wiki page that list all the tasks to be done, in 
order for the release manager to not forget anything.

Vincent

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