Revising Gnucash 1.8 schedule

[Christian Stimming]

Plan so far:

Oct 13 Feature freeze, release 1.7.1-alpha

Oct 27 Total feature freeze, initial string freeze + initial translation
work, release 1.7.2-alpha

Nov 18 (originally: Nov 10) Deep freeze = only bugfixes, String freeze, call for translations, release 1.7.3-beta

Now:

Which parts are missing that are essential for 1.8 but will break String freeze and/or be a new feature? I know of:

* Currency exchange transaction Dialog; responsible: Derek

* Generic transaction import - Account matcher; responsible: ? (Benoit, cstim, Derek); but I would consider this as non-essential for 1.8, so if we cannot get it done until the next beta, I would propose to delay that until final 1.8 is out.

Now this means that in the next beta, there will still be new features added (at least the transaction dialog). I think that before 1.8, we should have at least one release with *zero* new features added but only bugs fixed. Therefore I'd propose to have two (instead of one) more beta releases until the final 1.8.0 - but the interval between the bug-only release and 1.8 may IMHO be allowed to be only one week. This would result in

Dec 1 release 1.7.4-beta: Deep freeze + String freeze. From now on no new features until after 1.8.0 is out. New strings only after checking back with cstim.

Dec 15 Release 1.7.5-beta: Still deep freeze + string freeze. Definitely no new features until after 1.8.0 is out. From now on bugfixes only after review on #gnucash or gnucash-devel, and definitely no string changes.

Dec 22 Release 1.8.0 for Christmas :-)

After that, a quick 1.8.1 release will be needed basically only with updated translations. We then need to decide on when to split off a new HEAD / gnucash-1.8 branch to be able to code on totally new features without screwing up the stable series. But I guess that shouldn't be decided right now. :-)

Christian

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