Great job!! -walter
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a proposal for the new 0.88 schedule [1]. Basically, I > followed the GNOME schedule for 2.30 [2]. Following in terms of dates, > and I have added certain new freezes we did not have before. > > In detail: > - tarballs due will be on Mondays, and the release on Wednesdays: I hope > this will allow us to see the tarballs packaged by the end of the week > by the distributions ---> getting more testing done over the weekend > > - UI Freeze added: No UI changes may be made without approval from the > release-team and notification to the documentation list. Having such a > freeze helps documentation efforts, and to not introduce workflow > regressions and issues late in the cycle. > > - The feature freeze and API freeze is earlier compared to previous > cycles. This should help to get a more stable release at the envisioned > release date. After this shortened release cycle, from one feature > freeze to the next one, there will be always 6 months. So the same > amount of time to allow for development of features. > > - To allow for long term planning, I have drafted the 0.90 schedule, too > [3]. This should help to schedule bigger features. > > - Testing: I hope to see much much more testing in this release cycle. > Two things should help here: a) I encourage the creation of a testing > team. b) The 0.88 release will be packaged early. For testing purposes > 0.88 will be packaged for F12. Other distributions are encouraged to do > similar. > > - Feature Process: We will follow the process [4] defined in the 0.86 > cycle. It will be communicated another time. > > - Getting it into a release: As we follow the same schedule as GNOME is, > we should have no issues in getting our packages into the distributions > in time. See the F13 [5] for example. > > > Comments welcome, > Simon > > > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Roadmap#Schedule > [2] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentynine > [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Roadmap#Schedule > [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy > [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel