On 10/27/14 15:42, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > We are in the final stages for 1.12 so it is about time to think about > the schedule for 1.13. > > This proposal will follow the simplification I proposed during the EFL > dev day and here on the mailing list. It changes to a simplified 8 weeks > development followed by 4 weeks stabilization model. > > I heard the comments about going down to 3 weeks stabilization but > looking through the feedback it seems we should at least give 8+4 a try > for the first time. We can always adjust for the next cycle. > > 1.12 is planned for November 10th which would normally mean we start the > development window at that day (minus the days we might need to delay). > When doing the schedule like this I discovered two problems date wise > which I would like to avoid. Number one is that the merge window would > close at the 5th of January next year. Given that many western > developers are on vacation end of the year and beginning of the new one > that would mean that they would in worst case only have 6 weeks time and > the stabilization phase would directly begin at the end of their vacation. > > The second date conflict would be the release date of 1.13. It would be > the 2nd of February a day where I will most likely will travel back from > FOSDEM. Both of these date conflicts made me think that we should just > start our cycle a week late for 1.13 (at the 17th of November). That > gives people a week after new year vacation to ring in their last > changes and myself a easier last week for preparing and releasing 1.13. > > Full schedule would look like this: > > 2014-11-17 EFL release 1.11 / Merge window for 1.13 opens > 2015-01-08 Notice about soon ending merge window > 2015-01-12 Merge window is over. > > * Only bug fixes from this point > * Alpha release tarball > * Three weeks stabilization phase starts > > 2015-01-19 Beta1 release tarball > > * Only critical fixes from this point > > 2015-01-26 Beta2 release tarball > 2015-02-02 Beta3 release tarball > 2015-02-09 EFL 1.13 is Out > > Comments, opinions? If nothing speaks against this I would consider it > agreed upon next week. > > regards > Stefan Schmidt > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > Hi Stefan,
Strong in you is the copy-paste force :-) Seems a good decision to delay by a week. D2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
